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Article

Characterizing the Dynamical Accumulation of Nuclear DNA in the Sperm Cells of Lycium barbarum L.

by
Hua Deng
1,
Pierre Nouvellet
2 and
David Waxman
1,*
1
Centre for Computational Systems Biology, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China
2
Medical Research Council Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BX, UK
*
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Int. J. Plant Biol. 2015, 6(1), 5996; https://doi.org/10.4081/pb.2015.5996
Submission received: 7 May 2015 / Revised: 5 July 2015 / Accepted: 5 July 2015 / Published: 1 February 2016

Abstract

When sperm cells of the plant Lycium barbarum L. (L. barbarum) form in a style they begin to synthesize nuclear DNA (nDNA), which monotonically increases over time. To characterize the dynamics of nDNA accumulation, we present two new dynamical/statistical models. We applied these models to the accumulation of the nDNA content of sperm cells in L. barbarum between 16 to 32 h after pollination in a style. A statistical analysis of experimental data, involving Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, allowed estimation of parameters of the models. We conclude that the model with no variation in the rate of nDNA accumulation adequately summarizes the data. This is the first work where the dynamics of nDNA accumulation has been quantitatively modeled and analyzed.
Keywords: statistical analysis; pollen grains; mathematical model statistical analysis; pollen grains; mathematical model

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Deng, H.; Nouvellet, P.; Waxman, D. Characterizing the Dynamical Accumulation of Nuclear DNA in the Sperm Cells of Lycium barbarum L. Int. J. Plant Biol. 2015, 6, 5996. https://doi.org/10.4081/pb.2015.5996

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Deng H, Nouvellet P, Waxman D. Characterizing the Dynamical Accumulation of Nuclear DNA in the Sperm Cells of Lycium barbarum L. International Journal of Plant Biology. 2015; 6(1):5996. https://doi.org/10.4081/pb.2015.5996

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Deng, Hua, Pierre Nouvellet, and David Waxman. 2015. "Characterizing the Dynamical Accumulation of Nuclear DNA in the Sperm Cells of Lycium barbarum L." International Journal of Plant Biology 6, no. 1: 5996. https://doi.org/10.4081/pb.2015.5996

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