Evolution after Gene Duplication (Dittma
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Dittmar, Katharina; Liberles, David
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Article
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2011
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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English
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Many plants have large and complex genomes, with genome size varying 1000-fold (Bennett and Leitch, 2004). Although large genome size in conifers has been attributed to expansion of retrotransposons, the large size and complexity of most plant genomes appears to be due to gene duplication-through ex