Polyploidy is an important feature of plant genomes, but the nature of many polyploidization
events remains to be elucidated. Here, we demonstrate that the evolutionary fates of the …

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 …

The closely related species Brassica rapa and B. oleracea encompass a wide range of
vegetable, fodder and oil crops. The release of their reference genomes has facilitated …

An ancient hexaploidization event in the most but not all Asteraceae plants, may have been
responsible for shaping the genomes of many horticultural, ornamental, and medicinal …

The members of the tribe Brassiceae share a whole-genome triplication (WGT), and one
proposed model for its formation is a two-step pair of hybridizations producing hexaploid …

Aquaporins (AQPs) are an abundant protein family and play important roles to facilitate
small neutral molecule transport across membranes. Oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) is an …

Highlights•R. sativus has a similar position in genome evolution as that of
Brassicas.•Brassica “triangle of U” was extended to an open system as a multi-vertex …

The ancestor of most teleost fishes underwent a whole-genome duplication event three
hundred million years ago. Despite its antiquity, the effects of this event are evident both in …

Sinapis alba and Sinapis arvensis are mustard crops within the Brassiceae tribe of the
Brassicaceae family, and represent an important genetic resource for crop improvement. We …

Brassica rapa includes some of the most important vegetables worldwide as well as oilseed
crops. The complete annotated genome sequence confirmed its paleohexaploid origins and …