Figure 3

Genome sizes in basal angiosperm families. Bennett and Leitch [38] updated with Cui et al. [39], shown on logarithmic scale. Filled symbols indicate taxa used in The Floral Genome Project (http://www.floralgenome.org) or The Ancestral Angiosperm Genome Project (http://ancangio.uga.edu/), and for which EST resources are available. Compare basal angiosperm genome sizes to Arabidopsis at 125 Mb [40] and Oryza at 389 Mb [41]. The symbol representing Aristolochia is the proposed model Aristolochia fimbriata. Other species of Aristolochia have smaller genome sizes (see Figure 5, Table 4).