The analysis of polyploid genetic data

PG Meirmans, S Liu, PH van Tienderen - Journal of Heredity, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Though polyploidy is an important aspect of the evolutionary genetics of both plants and
animals, the development of population genetic theory of polyploids has seriously lagged …

Exploring environmental selection on genome size in angiosperms

L Faizullah, JA Morton, EI Hersch-Green… - Trends in Plant …, 2021 - cell.com
Angiosperms show a remarkable range in genome size (GS), yet most species have small
genomes, despite the frequency of polyploidy and repeat amplification in the ancestries of …

The Plant DNA C-values database (release 7.1)

J Pellicer, IJ Leitch - The new phytologist, 2020 - JSTOR
In recent decades, interest in plant genome size (ie the total amount of DNA in the
unreplicated haploid nucleus; Greilhuber et al., 2005) has been growing exponentially as …

Genome downsizing after polyploidy: mechanisms, rates and selection pressures

X Wang, JA Morton, J Pellicer, IJ Leitch… - The Plant …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
An analysis of over 10 000 plant genome sizes (GSs) indicates that most species have
smaller genomes than expected given the incidence of polyploidy in their ancestries …

The “Polyploid Hop”: shifting challenges and opportunities over the evolutionary lifespan of genome duplications

P Baduel, S Bray, M Vallejo-Marin, F Kolář… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The duplication of an entire genome is no small affair. Whole genome duplication (WGD) is
a dramatic mutation with long-lasting effects, yet it occurs repeatedly in all eukaryotic …

Small genome size and variation in ploidy levels support the naturalization of vascular plants but constrain their invasive spread

P Pyšek, M Lučanová, W Dawson… - New …, 2023 - durham-repository.worktribe.com
Karyological characteristics are among the traits underpinning the invasion success of
vascular plants. Using 11 049 species, we tested the effects of genome size and ploidy …

The application of flow cytometry for estimating genome size, ploidy level endopolyploidy, and reproductive modes in plants

J Pellicer, RF Powell, IJ Leitch - Molecular plant taxonomy: methods and …, 2021 - Springer
Over the years, the amount of DNA in a nucleus (genome size) has been estimated using a
variety of methods, but increasingly, flow cytometry (FCM) has become the method of choice …

Priority actions to improve provenance decision-making

MF Breed, PA Harrison, A Bischoff, P Durruty… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Selecting the geographic origin—the provenance—of seed is a key decision in restoration.
The last decade has seen a vigorous debate on whether to use local or nonlocal seed. The …

Polyploidy promotes species diversification of Allium through ecological shifts

TS Han, QJ Zheng, RE Onstein… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the role of polyploidy in multiple evolutionary processes, its impact on plant
diversification remains controversial. An increased polyploid frequency may facilitate …

Structure is more robust than other clustering methods in simulated mixed-ploidy populations

M Stift, F Kolář, PG Meirmans - Heredity, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Analysis of population genetic structure has become a standard approach in
population genetics. In polyploid complexes, clustering analyses can elucidate the origin of …