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 …

Insights from genomes into the evolutionary importance and prevalence of hybridization in nature

SA Taylor, EL Larson - Nature ecology & evolution, 2019 - nature.com
Hybridization is an evolutionary phenomenon that has fascinated biologists for centuries.
Prior to the advent of whole-genome sequencing, it was clear that hybridization had played …

[HTML][HTML] Origin and evolution of the octoploid strawberry genome

PP Edger, TJ Poorten, R VanBuren, MA Hardigan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Cultivated strawberry emerged from the hybridization of two wild octoploid species, both
descendants from the merger of four diploid progenitor species into a single nucleus more …

[HTML][HTML] The genome of cultivated peanut provides insight into legume karyotypes, polyploid evolution and crop domestication

W Zhuang, H Chen, M Yang, J Wang, MK Pandey… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
High oil and protein content make tetraploid peanut a leading oil and food legume. Here we
report a high-quality peanut genome sequence, comprising 2.54 Gb with 20 …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstruction of proto-vertebrate, proto-cyclostome and proto-gnathostome genomes provides new insights into early vertebrate evolution

Y Nakatani, P Shingate, V Ravi, NE Pillai… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Ancient polyploidization events have had a lasting impact on vertebrate genome structure,
organization and function. Some key questions regarding the number of ancient …

[HTML][HTML] Genome assemblies of 11 bamboo species highlight diversification induced by dynamic subgenome dominance

PF Ma, YL Liu, C Guo, G Jin, ZH Guo, L Mao… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Polyploidy (genome duplication) is a pivotal force in evolution. However, the interactions
between parental genomes in a polyploid nucleus, frequently involving subgenome …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Homoeologous exchanges, segmental allopolyploidy, and polyploid genome evolution

AS Mason, JF Wendel - Frontiers in Genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Polyploidy is a major force in plant evolution and speciation. In newly formed allopolyploids,
pairing between related chromosomes from different subgenomes (homoeologous …

[HTML][HTML] Reshuffling of the ancestral core-eudicot genome shaped chromatin topology and epigenetic modification in Panax

ZH Wang, XF Wang, T Lu, MR Li, P Jiang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
All extant core-eudicot plants share a common ancestral genome that has experienced
cyclic polyploidizations and (re) diploidizations. Reshuffling of the ancestral core-eudicot …