Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Retrotransposon proliferation coincident with the evolution of dioecy in Asparagus
Alex Harkess, Francesco Mercati, Loredana Abbate…·Jim Leebens-Mack
The paper investigates genome size expansion in dioecious Asparagus species and finds retrotransposon proliferation, not polyploidization, is the main driver.
DOI 10.1534/g3.116.030239