Architecture and evolution of a minute plant genome

• Main Authors: Ibarra-Laclette, Enrique, Lyons, Eric, Hernández-Guzmán, Gustavo, Pérez-Torres, Claudia Anahí, Carretero-Paulet, Lorenzo, Chang, Tien-Hao, Lan, Tianying, Juárez, María Jazmín Abraham, Simpson, June, Fernández-Cortés, Araceli, Arteaga-Vázquez, Mario, Góngora-Castillo, Elsa, Acevedo-Hernández, Gustavo, Himmelbauer, Heinz, Xu, Sen, Lynch, Michael, Oropeza-Aburto, Araceli, Cervantes-Pérez, Sergio Alan, Cervantes-Luevano, Jacob Israel, Mockler, Todd, Bryant, Douglas, Herrera-Estrella, Alfredo, Herrera-Estrella, Luis, Ortega-Estrada, María de Jesús, Michael, Todd P., Welch, Andreanna J., Schuster, Stephan C., Minoche, André E., Albert, Victor A.
• Format: Article
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99317; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17836
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

It has been argued that the evolution of plant genome size is principally unidirectional and increasing owing to the varied action of whole-genome duplications (WGDs) and mobile element proliferation1. However, extreme genome size reductions have been reported in the angiosperm family tree. Here we...