Impacts of nitrogen and phosphorus: from genomes to natural ecosystems and agriculture

MS Guignard, AR Leitch, C Acquisti… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Nitrogen (N) and/or phosphorus (P) availability can limit growth of primary producers across
most of the world's aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. These constraints are commonly …

The more the better? The role of polyploidy in facilitating plant invasions

M Te Beest, JJ Le Roux, DM Richardson… - Annals of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Background Biological invasions are a major ecological and socio-economic problem in
many parts of the world. Despite an explosion of research in recent decades, much remains …

Transposable elements: an abundant and natural source of regulatory sequences for host genes

R Rebollo, MT Romanish, DL Mager - Annual review of genetics, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The fact that transposable elements (TEs) can influence host gene expression was first
recognized more than 50 years ago. However, since that time, TEs have been widely …

OCBIL theory: towards an integrated understanding of the evolution, ecology and conservation of biodiversity on old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes

SD Hopper - Plant and soil, 2009 - Springer
OCBIL theory aims to develop an integrated series of hypotheses explaining the evolution
and ecology of, and best conservation practices for, biota on very old, climatically buffered …

The largest eukaryotic genome of them all?

J Pellicer, MF Fay, IJ Leitch - Botanical Journal of the Linnean …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
We report the largest eukaryotic genome to date in the monocot Paris japonica
(Melanthiaceae, 1C= 152.23 pg), measured using flow cytometry. This value is 15% larger …

Mechanisms of recent genome size variation in flowering plants

JL Bennetzen, J Ma, KM Devos - Annals of botany, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Background and Aims Plant nuclear genomes vary tremendously in DNA content, mostly
due to differences in ancestral ploidy and variation in the degree of transposon amplification …

The large genome constraint hypothesis: evolution, ecology and phenotype

CA Knight, NA Molinari, DA Petrov - Annals of Botany, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Background and Aims If large genomes are truly saturated with unnecessary 'junk'DNA, it
would seem natural that there would be costs associated with accumulation and replication …

Nuclear DNA amounts in angiosperms: progress, problems and prospects

MD Bennett, IJ Leitch - Annals of Botany, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Abstract CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 45 PROGRESS 46 Improved systematic
representation (species and families) 46 (i) First estimates for species 46 (ii) First estimates …

Genome duplication in amphibians and fish: an extended synthesis

BK Mable, MA Alexandrou, MI Taylor - Journal of zoology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Whole genome duplication (leading to polyploidy) is widely accepted as an important
evolutionary force in plants, but it is less recognized as a driver of animal diversification …

Why repetitive DNA is essential to genome function

JA Shapiro, R von Sternberg - Biological Reviews, 2005 - cambridge.org
There are clear theoretical reasons and many well-documented examples which show that
repetitive DNA is essential for genome function. Generic repeated signals in the DNA are …