Satellite DNA is one of the major classes of repetitive DNA, characterized by tandemly
arranged repeat copies that form contiguous arrays up to megabases in length. This type of …

Background Centromeres are essential for chromosome segregation, yet their DNA
sequences evolve rapidly. In most animals and plants that have been studied, centromeres …

The differential accumulation and elimination of repetitive DNA are key drivers of genome
size variation in flowering plants, yet there have been few studies which have analysed how …

Hybridization in plants has been shown to be one of the most creative forces for the
evolution of earth's biodiversity. In this review, the historical development of hybrid research …

The history of rDNA research started almost 90 years ago when the geneticist, Barbara
McClintock observed that in interphase nuclei of maize the nucleolus was formed in …

Abstract 5S and 45S rDNA sites are the best mapped chromosome regions in eukaryotic
chromosomes. In this work, a database was built gathering information about the position …

Saffron crocus (Crocus sativus) is the source of the most expensive spice of the world,
produced from manually harvested stigmas, thus serving as a cash crop for rural …

Satellite DNA, a class of repetitive sequences forming long arrays of tandemly repeated
units, represents substantial portions of many plant genomes yet remains poorly …

This article describes the use of cytogenomic and molecular approaches to explore the
origin and evolution of Cardamine schulzii, a textbook example of a recent allopolyploid, in …

Main conclusions While two lineages of retrotransposons were more abundant in larger
Passiflora genomes, the satellitome was more diverse and abundant in the smallest genome …