Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale (IMAGE)

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution)

Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale

Caption

Members of the Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale (C. psl.) complex, a unicellular Zygnematophycean alga, exhibit a more than twofold heritable variation in genome size. A photograph of C. psl. cells taken under the microscope is shown above a phylogeny of C. psl. strains and their associated genome sizes.

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Image courtesy of Yawako Kawaguchi.

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