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Table 1 Results of cell flow cytometry to determine the nuclear genome sizes of some lycophytes.

From: Construction of a bacterial artificial chromosome library from the spikemoss Selaginella moellendorffii: a new resource for plant comparative genomics

Sample species

Internal standard (pg/2C)

DNA content of sample (pg/2C); n1; SD

DNA content of sample species (Mbp/1C)2

Huperzia lucidula

Chick red blood cells (2.333)

11.40; 4; 0.036

5586

Diphaiastrum digita

Chick red blood cells (2.333)

5.45; 4; 0.017

2670

Isoetes engelmanii

Glycine max leaf (2.254)

3.49; 4; 0.005

1710

Selaginella moellendorffii

Arabidopsis thaliana flower buds (0.365)

Oryza sativa leaf (1.06)

Glycine max leaf (2.254)

0.18; 8; 0.009

0.25; 4; 0.25

0.26; 4; 0.006

88

123

127

Selaginella kraussiana

Oryza sativa leaf (1.06)

Glycine max leaf (2.254)

0.43; 4; 0.006

0.49; 4; 0.003

211

240

  1. 1nuclei from sample and internal standard source plants or cells were prepared; n represents the number of times each nuclei preparation was sampled by cell flow cytometry.
  2. 2assumes that 1 pg = 980 Mbp
  3. 3Galbraith et al. [20]
  4. 4Bennett and Leitch [21]
  5. 5Bennett et al. [22]
  6. 6Bennett et al. [23]