Independent, Rapid and Targeted Loss of Highly Repetitive DNA in Natural and Synthetic Allopolyploids of Nicotiana tabacum

• Simon Renny-Byfield,

  Affiliation School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Ales Kovařík,

  Affiliation Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic

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• Michael Chester,

  Affiliations School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, Laboratory of Molecular Systematics and Evolutionary Genetics, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Richard A. Nichols,

  Affiliation School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Jiri Macas,

  Affiliation Biology Centre ASCR, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

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• Petr Novák,

  Affiliation Biology Centre ASCR, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

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• Andrew R. Leitch

  * E-mail: a.r.leitch@qmul.ac.uk

  Affiliation School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

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