Genome size microscale divergence of Cyclamen persicum in Evolution canyon, Israel

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Authors	PAVLÍČEK Tomáš BUREŠ Petr HOROVÁ Lucie RASKINA Olga NEVO Eviatar
Year of publication	2008
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Central European Journal of Biology
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Web	http://springerlink.metapress.com/content/22m1g4r673r84880/fulltext.pdf
Field	Botany
Keywords	c-value; DNA content; Flow cytometry
Description	Using flow cytometry, we examined genome size of the Persian violet, Cyclamen persicum (Primulaceae) on opposite slopes of Evolution Canyon (EC), Mt. Carmel, Israel. The range of genome size variation was 6.41% in relation to the smallest measured DNA content. Our data showed that local variability in the 2C-value exists. Significantly less DNA was recorded in plants growing in one station of the African savannah-like south-facing slope (AS) but not in the remaining two stations of the same slope. We were not able to reject the null hypothesis that there are no significant interslope differences in the genome size between the temperate European garrigue-like north-facing slope (ES) and the drier AS.
Related projects:	Diversity of Biotic Communities and Populations: Causal Analysis of variation in space and time Biodiversity Research Center