Genome doubling and changes in genome size are fundamental evolutionary processes. Arabidopsis kamchatica has been reported to contain both diploid and tetraploid individuals (2 or 4 copies of every chromosome). We did find genome size differences among populations, and among populations genome size varied 7%. However, all sampled A. kamchatica plants from a wide geographic range were tetraploids. This level of intraspecific genome size variation in A. kamchatica is lower than in other Arabidopsis taxa. Due to its close relationship to A. thaliana, A. kamchatica has the potential to be very useful in the study of polyploidy and genome evolution.
Genome size variation and evolution in allotetraploid Arabidopsis kamchatica and its parents, Arabidopsis lyrata and Arabidopsis halleri
D. Wolf,J. Steets,G. Houliston,N. Takebayashi
Published 2014 in AoB Plants
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2014
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AoB Plants
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2014-05-26
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Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science
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