%0 Journal Article
%T Remarkable variation of ribosomal DNA organization and copy number in gnetophytes, a distinct lineage of gymnosperms
%A Alena Kuderova
%A Ale£¿ Kova£¿¨ªk
%A Andrew R Leitch
%A Hannes Becher
%A Ilia J Leitch
%A S¨°nia Garcia
%A Tao Wan
%A Wencai Wang
%J Archive of "Annals of Botany".
%D 2019
%R 10.1093/aob/mcy172
%X Gnetophytes, comprising the genera Ephedra, Gnetum and Welwitschia, are an understudied, enigmatic lineage of gymnosperms with a controversial phylogenetic relationship to other seed plants. Here we examined the organization of ribosomal DNA (rDNA) across representative species
%K Gnetophytes
%K rDNA organization
%K chromosome evolution
%K high-throughput sequencing
%K concerted evolution
%K pseudogenes
%K intragenomic diversity
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6526317/