Sentence examples for much smaller genomes from inspiring English sources

The Vigna mitochondrial genome is skewed towards fewer and shorter repeats when compared to comparably sized, repeat-poor genomes (e.g., Bambusa) or even the much smaller genomes of Silene and Brassica (Fig. 2).

The reason for this is open to speculation, but may be associated with the fact that ticks harbour a large genome (>1×109 bases) with the potential of encoding multiple CK binding proteins, unlike viruses, which are limited by much smaller genomes.

Most obligate intracellular parasites or symbionts had much smaller genomes than extracellular organisms [see Additional file 24].

It was noticed that Prochlorococcus spp. tend to have much smaller genomes with lower GC content (cf., table 1).

First analysis revealed the much smaller genomes of the two P. granulosum strains, which is in average 400 kb smaller than P. acnes and P. avidum (Additional file 1).

Interestingly, a recent study comparing enhancer activity across the much smaller genomes of five Drosophila species (Arnold et al., 2014) found a similar proportion of gained enhancers, especially for more distant species.

These changes seem to correspond with a lower level of neoteny and a much smaller genome in the arid-zone species (see discussion in Peruzzi et al. 2009).

Given enough time, most of these genes would be eroded, resulting in a much smaller genome.

Of the sequenced Brassicaceae genomes, pennycress is most closely related to E. salsugineum, which possesses a much smaller genome (241 Mb), but the same karyotype (n = 7).

The value is also lower than that of A. thaliana (one gene per 5 kb) [ 41], which has a much smaller genome size (157 Mb).

Even though S. cerevisiae is a much smaller genome than A. thaliana, many confirmed TFs have been identified for A. thaliana.