bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.27.441637; this version posted April 28, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 The nature of intraspecific genome size variation in taxonomically complex eyebrights 2 Authors: 3 Hannes Becher1, Robyn F. Powell2, Max R. Brown1,3, Chris Metherell4, Jaume Pellicer2,5, Ilia J. 4 Leitch2, Alex D. Twyford1,6,7 5 1 Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 6 Charlotte Auerbach Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FL, UK 7 2 Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK 8 3 current address: Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Saffron Walden CB10 1RQ 9 4 Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, 4 High Firs Crescent, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 10 1NA, UK 11 5 Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB, CSIC-Ajuntament de Barcelona), Passeig del Migdia sn, 12 08038, Barcelona, Spain 13 6 Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, UK 14 7 correspondence:
[email protected] 15 Word counts: 16 Total word count for the main body of the text (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, 17 Discussion): 5826 18 Section word counts: Into 1035, M&M 1320, Results 1730, Discussion 1741 19 Figures: 3, all colour 20 Tables: 1 21 Supporting Figures: 2 22 Supporting Tables: 2 23 24 25 26 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.27.441637; this version posted April 28, 2021.