Polyploid formation shapes flowering plant diversity

SV Scarpino, DA Levin… - The American Naturalist, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
Polyploidy, or whole genome duplication, has been an important feature of eukaryotic
evolution. This is especially true in flowering plants, where all extant angiosperms have …

Angiosperm polyploids and their road to evolutionary success

JA Fawcett, Y Van de Peer - Trends in Evolutionary Biology, 2010 - pagepress.org
The abundance of polyploidy among flowering plants has long been recognized, and recent
studies have uncovered multiple ancient polyploidization events in the evolutionary history …

Are polyploids really evolutionary dead-ends (again)? A critical reappraisal of Mayrose et al. (2011)

DE Soltis, MC Segovia-Salcedo, I Jordon-Thaden… - New Phytologist, 2014 - JSTOR
Background Throughout the past century, hybridization and polyploidization have variously
been viewed as drivers of biodiversity (eg Arnold, 1997) or evolutionary noise, unimportant …

Polyploidy: an evolutionary and ecological force in stressful times

Y Van de Peer, TL Ashman, PS Soltis, DE Soltis - The Plant Cell, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Polyploidy has been hypothesized to be both an evolutionary dead-end and a source for
evolutionary innovation and species diversification. Although polyploid organisms …

Non-Mendelian phenomena in allopolyploid genome evolution

B Liu, JF Wendel - Current Genomics, 2002 - ingentaconnect.com
Perhaps all flowering plants have experienced one or more episodes of polyploidization at
some time in their evolutionary history. Recent evidence indicates that this genome doubling …

Does reproductive assurance explain the incidence of polyploidy in plants and animals?

JP Spoelhof, R Keeffe, SF McDaniel - The New Phytologist, 2020 - JSTOR
A broad difference in the frequencies of plant and animal polyploidy (whole-genome
duplication, WGD) has been recognized since the early 20th century (eg Gates, 1924; …

[图书][B] Significance and biological consequences of polyploidization in land plant evolution

JA Fawcett, Y Van de Peer, S Maere - 2013 - Springer
Although plant polyploidization is ubiquitous in nature, polyploidy has long been considered
an evolutionary dead end, precluding further species diversification. However, recent …

Genomic aspects of research involving polyploid plants

X Yang, CY Ye, ZM Cheng, TJ Tschaplinski… - Plant Cell, Tissue and …, 2011 - Springer
Almost all extant plant species have doubled their genomes at least once in their
evolutionary histories, resulting in polyploidy which provided a rich genomic resource for …

Polyploid species rely on vegetative reproduction more than diploids: a re-examination of the old hypothesis

T Herben, J Suda, J Klimešová - Annals of botany, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Polyploidy is arguably the single most important genetic
mechanism in plant speciation and diversification. It has been repeatedly suggested that …

The role of genetic and genomic attributes in the success of polyploids

PS Soltis, DE Soltis - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2000 - National Acad Sciences
In 1950, G. Ledyard Stebbins devoted two chapters of his book Variation and Evolution in
Plants (Columbia Univ. Press, New York) to polyploidy, one on occurrence and nature and …