Impact of parasitic lifestyle and different types of centromere organization on chromosome and genome evolution in the plant genus Cuscuta
Pavel Neumann, Ludmila Cristina de Oliveira, Jana Čížková, Tae‐Soo Jang, Sonja Klemme, Petr Novák, Katarzyna Stelmach, Andrea Koblížková, Jaroslav Doležel, Jir̆ı́ Macas
The paper examines genome size variation and centromere organization in Cuscuta species, finding that holocentric chromosomes are associated with reduced genome size and changes in repetitive DNA and epigenetic marks.
New Phytologist · Oct 14, 2020Peer-reviewedGenomics