Genome Size Evolution and Repeat Content: A Review of Drivers Across Eukaryotic Lineages
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22668846Keywords:
Genome Size Evolution and Repeat Content; Biological sciences; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodologyAbstract
Genome Size Evolution and Repeat Content has moved quickly from a niche research question to something a wider community
can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the
current evidence for genome size evolution and repeat content, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory and cost angles,
with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still largely working it out for
themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or
blanket avoidance.
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