Comparative analysis of pepper and tomato reveals euchromatin expansion of pepper genome caused by differential accumulation of Ty3/Gypsy-like elements
Abstract Background Among the Solanaceae plants, the pepper genome is three times larger than that of tomato.Although the gene repertoire and gene order of both species are well conserved, the cause of the genome-size difference is not known.To determine the causes for the expansion of pepper euchromatic regions, we compared the pepper genome to th