RESEARCH ARTICLE The miniature genome of

va oro ata, G se lent opportunity to address this question [1]. A monocot Paris japonica possesses a 150,000 Mb genome, the would imply that they either lost a large proportion of their genes or possess only very short intergenic regions. Leushkin et al. BMC Genomics 2013, 14:476 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/14/476Phylogeny of genus Genlisea [12] implies that the smallState University, Moscow, Russia Full list of author information is available at the end of the articlelargest genome known [2]. By contrast, two carnivorous plants from the family Lentibulariaceae, Genlisea mar-garetae and G. aurea have genomes of only 63.4 Mb and 63.6 Mb, respectively, although genomes of some other species of these genus exceed 1,000 Mb [3]. Such flexi-bility of the genome size is of interest from both the Recent advances of sequencing technologies made it possible to characterize genomes of a number of angio-sperm species. Most of them are from economically important species (such as rice, potato, soybean and apple). Also, the genome projects for plants of outstand-ing evolutionary significance such as basal angiosperm Amborella and basal eudicot Aquilegia are in progress [6-8]. Together with availability of efficient tools and da-tabases for plant genome annotation [9-11], this enables studies of the genome size evolution in angiosperms