Abstract The effective population size (Ne) of an organism is expected to be generally proportional the total number individuals in a population. In parasites, we might expect host and body size, because both are increase parasite individuals. However, among other factors, populations sometimes so extremely subdivided that high levels inbreeding may distort these predicted relationships. Here, ...

in order to determine the cytotypes of 67 accessions of aegilops crassa from iran, two flow cytometry and cytogenetics methods were applied. the nucleus of the young leaves was colored using dapi and the intensity of fluorescent determined by flow cytometry. by comparing the intensity of the fluorescent of the ae. crassa samples with ae. tauschii (as an standard sample), two cytotypes 4x and 6x...