The evolutionary significance of polyploidy

Y Van de Peer, E Mizrachi, K Marchal - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Polyploidy, or the duplication of entire genomes, has been observed in prokaryotic and
eukaryotic organisms, and in somatic and germ cells. The consequences of polyploidization …

Polyploidy and interspecific hybridization: partners for adaptation, speciation and evolution in plants

K Alix, PR Gérard, T Schwarzacher… - Annals of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background Polyploidy or whole-genome duplication is now recognized as being present in
almost all lineages of higher plants, with multiple rounds of polyploidy occurring in most …

One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants

Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Green plants (Viridiplantae) include around 450,000–500,000 species, of great diversity and
have important roles in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Here, as part of the One …

Polyploidy, the nucleotype, and novelty: the impact of genome doubling on the biology of the cell

JJ Doyle, JE Coate - International Journal of Plant Sciences, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Polyploidy is a key mechanism of genome evolution and speciation, particularly in plants.
Many aspects of polyploidy have been elucidated with the tools that have become available …

Gene retention, fractionation and subgenome differences in polyploid plants

F Cheng, J Wu, X Cai, J Liang, M Freeling, X Wang - Nature plants, 2018 - nature.com
All natural plant species are evolved from ancient polyploids. Polyloidization plays an
important role in plant genome evolution, species divergence and crop domestication. We …

Impact of whole‐genome duplication events on diversification rates in angiosperms

JB Landis, DE Soltis, Z Li, HE Marx… - American journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the Study Polyploidy or whole‐genome duplication (WGD) pervades the
evolutionary history of angiosperms. Despite extensive progress in our understanding of …

Patterns and processes of diploidization in land plants

Z Li, MTW McKibben, GS Finch… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Most land plants are now known to be ancient polyploids that have rediploidized.
Diploidization involves many changes in genome organization that ultimately restore …

Insights into angiosperm evolution, floral development and chemical biosynthesis from the Aristolochia fimbriata genome

L Qin, Y Hu, J Wang, X Wang, R Zhao, H Shan, K Li… - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
Aristolochia, a genus in the magnoliid order Piperales, has been famous for centuries for its
highly specialized flowers and wide medicinal applications. Here, we present a new, high …

Multiple large-scale gene and genome duplications during the evolution of hexapods

Z Li, GP Tiley, SR Galuska… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Polyploidy or whole genome duplication (WGD) is a major contributor to genome evolution
and diversity. Although polyploidy is recognized as an important component of plant …

Pure polyploidy: closing the gaps in autopolyploid research

JP Spoelhof, PS Soltis, DE Soltis - Journal of Systematics and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Polyploidy (whole‐genome duplication, WGD) is an integral feature of eukaryotic evolution
with two main forms typically recognized, autopolyploidy and allopolyploidy. In plants, a …