McGrath et al., 2014; Scienski et al., 2015) revealed that many eukaryotes do indeed have a
polyploid ancestry. Although there have been recent debates on the average fate of …

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 …

• Premise of the study: Hybridization and polyploidization (allopolyploidy) are ubiquitous in
the evolution of plants, but tracing the origins and subsequent evolution of the constituent …

Polyploidy has long been recognized as a prominent force shaping the evolution of
eukaryotes, especially flowering plants. New phenotypes often arise with polyploid formation …

Polyploidy is an intriguing phenomenon in plants that has provided an important pathway for
evolution and speciation. Although the first polyploid was discovered over a century ago, the …

Gene duplication, arising from region-specific duplication or genome-wide polyploidization,
is a prominent feature in plant genome evolution. Understanding the mechanisms …

Polyploidy has played a major role in higher plant evolution. Most flowering plants are
polyploid, and many are distinct in combining the diploid nuclear genomes from two or more …

It has long been recognized that hybridization and polyploidy are prominent processes in
plant evolution. Although classically recognized as significant in speciation and adaptation …

The occurrence of polyploidy in land plant evolution has led to an acceleration of genome
modifications relative to other crown eukaryotes and is correlated with key innovations in …

Combining the genomes of two species through hybridization and chromosome doubling
can create a new allopolyploid species virtually overnight. Although common in Nature, such …