Karyological characteristics are among the traits underpinning the invasion success of
vascular plants. Using 11 049 species, we tested the effects of genome size and ploidy …

The evolution and great diversity of genome size has been of long-standing interest to
biologists, but has seldom been investigated on a broad phylogenetic scale. Here we …

Data mining for a phylogenetic study including the prominent ericoid mycorrhizal fungus
Rhizoscyphus ericae revealed nearly identical ITS sequences of the bryophilous …

The content of DNA in the somatic, unreplicated cell nuclei (genome size) and DNA base
composition (GC content) are the basic genomic parameters that can be measured by flow …

Genome size variation is of fundamental biological importance and has been a longstanding
puzzle in evolutionary biology. Several hypotheses for genome size evolution including …

To extensively estimate the DNA content and to provide a basic reference for duckweed
genome sequence research, the nuclear DNA content for 115 different accessions of 23 …

Background Biologists have long debated the drivers of the genome size evolution and
variation ever since Darwin. Assumptions for the adaptive or maladaptive consequences of …

Genome size (GS) diversity is of fundamental biological importance. The occurrence of giant
genomes in angiosperms is restricted to just a few lineages in the analyzed genome size of …

Background Hieracium s. str. is a complex species-rich group of perennial herbs composed
of few sexual diploids and numerous apomictic polyploids. The existence of reticulation and …

Molecular evolution of ribosomal DNA can be highly dynamic. Hundreds to thousands of
copies in the genome are subject to concerted evolution, which homogenizes sequence …