Background Polyploidy (whole-genome duplication) is an important speciation mechanism,
particularly in plants. Gene loss, silencing, and the formation of novel gene complexes are …

Main conclusion This article provides an up-to-date review concerning from basic issues of
polyploidy to aspects regarding the relevance and role of both natural and artificial …

Mixed-ploidy species harbor a unique form of genomic and phenotypic variation that
influences ecological interactions, facilitates genetic divergence, and offers insights into the …

Polyploidy is a common mode of speciation that can have far‐reaching consequences for
plant ecology and evolution. Because polyploidy can induce an array of phenotypic …

Genomic evidence of ancestral whole genome duplication (WGD) and polyploidy is
widespread among eukaryotic species, and especially among plants. WGD is thought to …

Whole-genome duplication (WGD), which leads to polyploidy, is implicated in adaptation
and speciation. But what are the immediate effects of WGD and how do newly polyploid …

Hybridization and polyploidization are now recognized as major phenomena in the
evolution of plants, promoting genetic diversity, adaptive radiation and speciation. Modern …

Polyploidy (whole‐genome duplication, WGD) is an integral feature of eukaryotic evolution
with two main forms typically recognized, autopolyploidy and allopolyploidy. In plants, a …

Abstract Thirty years after Susumu Ohno proposed that vertebrate genomes are degenerate
polyploids, the extent to which genome duplication contributed to the evolution of the …

The abundance of polyploidy among flowering plants has long been recognized, and recent
studies have uncovered multiple ancient polyploidization events in the evolutionary history …