Quantification of retrotransposon in Festuca pallens population varying in genome size

Šmerda,  Jakub; Šmarda,  Petr; Horová,  Lucie; Bureš,  Petr

Quantification of retrotransposon in Festuca pallens population varying in genome size

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Authors	ŠMERDA Jakub ŠMARDA Petr HOROVÁ Lucie BUREŠ Petr
Year of publication	2008
Type	Conference abstract
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
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Description	Variation in genome size found within species and populations offers unique possibility to study ongoing processes of genome size evolution. In a Festuca pallens population with the constant chromosome number we documented recently a high variation in genome size (up to 1.188-fold) that we assume to be a probable consequence of recent retrotransposon activity. Here we tested this hypothesis by studying sequence diversity and copy number of some candidate retrotransposon types in several seedlings with constrasting genome sizes.
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