1. Genome deterioration: loss of repeated sequences and accumulation of junk DNA

   • A. Carolin Frank
   • Haleh Amiri
   • Siv G.E. Andersson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 12

2. Jam packed genomes – a preliminary, comparative analysis of nucleomorphs

   • Paul R. Gilson
   • Geoffrey I. McFadden

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 28

3. Mechanisms and rates of genome expansion and contraction in flowering plants

   • Jeffrey L. Bennetzen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 36

4. Feast and famine in plant genomes

   • Jonathan F. Wendel
   • Richard C. Cronn
   • H. James Price

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 47

5. Transposable elements and the evolution of genome size in eukaryotes

   • Margaret G. Kidwell

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 63

6. Expansion of genome coding regions by acquisition of new genes

   • Esther Betrán
   • Manyuan Long

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 80

7. DNA loss and evolution of genome size in Drosophila

   • Dmitri A. Petrov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 91

8. Genome size and the accumulation of simple sequence repeats: implications of new data from genome sequencing projects

   • John M. Hancock

   OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 103

9. Why so many noncoding nucleotides ? The eukaryote genome as an epigenetic machine

   • Emile Zuckerkandl

   OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 129

10. Genome size and developmental complexity

    • T. Ryan Gregory

    OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 146