| Literature DB >> 19308443 |
Urs Schmidt-Ott1, Ab Matteen Rafiqi, Klaus Sander, J Spencer Johnston.
Abstract
We discovered extremely small genomes (1C ~100 Mb) in the dipteran insects Coboldia fuscipes (Scatopsidae) and Psychoda cinerea (Psychodidae). The small genomes of these species cannot be explained by a fast developmental rate, which has been shown to correlate with small genome sizes in animals and plants but might accommodate the combined effects of other developmental traits, including small egg size, thin blastoderm layer, and long-germ development.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19308443 DOI: 10.1007/s00427-009-0281-0
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Dev Genes Evol ISSN: 0949-944X Impact factor: 0.900