Detailed Information on Publication Record
2008
Intrapopulation genome size dynamics in Festuca pallens
ŠMARDA, Petr, Petr BUREŠ, Lucie HOROVÁ and Olga ROTREKLOVÁBasic information
Original name
Intrapopulation genome size dynamics in Festuca pallens
Name in Czech
Vnitropopulační dynamika velikosti genomu u Festuca pallens
Authors
ŠMARDA, Petr (203 Czech Republic, guarantor), Petr BUREŠ (203 Czech Republic), Lucie HOROVÁ (203 Czech Republic) and Olga ROTREKLOVÁ (203 Czech Republic)
Edition
Annals of Botany, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, 0305-7364
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Country of publisher
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
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Impact factor
Impact factor: 2.755
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14310/08:00024952
Organization unit
Faculty of Science
UT WoS
000259326300012
Keywords in English
Nuclear DNA content; intraspecific variation; genome size evolution; heritability; stabilizing selection; grasses; flow cytometry
Tags
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 25/6/2009 10:45, Mgr. Olga Rotreklová, Ph.D.
V originále
Background and Aims: It is well known that genome size differs among species. However, information on the variation and dynamics of genome size in wild populations and on the early phase of genome size divergence between taxa is currently lacking. Genome size dynamics, heritability and phenotype effects are analysed here in a wild population of Festuca pallens (Poaceae). Methods: Genome size was measured using flow cytometry with DAPI dye in 562 seedlings from 17 maternal plants varying in genome size. The repeatability of genome size measurements was verified at different seasons through the use of different standards and with propidium iodide dye; the range of variation observed was tested via analysis of double-peaks. Additionally, chromosome counts were made in selected seedlings. Key Results and Conclusions: Analysis of double-peaks showed that genome size varied up to 1.188-fold within all 562 seedlings, 1.119-fold within the progeny of a single maternal plant and 1.117-fold in seedlings from grains of a single inflorescence. Generally, genome sizes of seedlings and their mothers were highly correlated. However, in maternal plants with both larger and smaller genomes, genome sizes of seedlings were shifted towards the population median. This was probably due to the frequency of available paternal genomes (pollen grains) in the population. There was a stabilizing selection on genome size during the development of seedlings into adults, which may be important for stabilizing genome size within species. Furthermore, a positive correlation was found between genome size and the development rate of seedlings. A larger genome may therefore provide a competitive advantage, perhaps explaining the higher proportion of plants with larger genomes in the population studied. The reason for the observed variation may be the recent induction of genome size variation, e.g. by activity of retrotransposons, which may be preserved in the long term by the segregation of homeologous chromosomes of different sizes during gametogenesis.
In Czech
Background and Aims: It is well known that genome size differs among species. However, information on the variation and dynamics of genome size in wild populations and on the early phase of genome size divergence between taxa is currently lacking. Genome size dynamics, heritability and phenotype effects are analysed here in a wild population of Festuca pallens (Poaceae). Methods: Genome size was measured using flow cytometry with DAPI dye in 562 seedlings from 17 maternal plants varying in genome size. The repeatability of genome size measurements was verified at different seasons through the use of different standards and with propidium iodide dye; the range of variation observed was tested via analysis of double-peaks. Additionally, chromosome counts were made in selected seedlings. Key Results and Conclusions: Analysis of double-peaks showed that genome size varied up to 1.188-fold within all 562 seedlings, 1.119-fold within the progeny of a single maternal plant and 1.117-fold in seedlings from grains of a single inflorescence. Generally, genome sizes of seedlings and their mothers were highly correlated. However, in maternal plants with both larger and smaller genomes, genome sizes of seedlings were shifted towards the population median. This was probably due to the frequency of available paternal genomes (pollen grains) in the population. There was a stabilizing selection on genome size during the development of seedlings into adults, which may be important for stabilizing genome size within species. Furthermore, a positive correlation was found between genome size and the development rate of seedlings. A larger genome may therefore provide a competitive advantage, perhaps explaining the higher proportion of plants with larger genomes in the population studied. The reason for the observed variation may be the recent induction of genome size variation, e.g. by activity of retrotransposons, which may be preserved in the long term by the segregation of homeologous chromosomes of different sizes during gametogenesis.
Links
| GP206/08/P222, research and development project |
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| LC06073, research and development project |
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| MSM0021622416, plan (intention) |
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