Background Throughout the past century, hybridization and polyploidization have variously
been viewed as drivers of biodiversity (eg Arnold, 1997) or evolutionary noise, unimportant …

Polyploidy (whole-genome duplication) has played a perva sive role in the evolution of fungi
and animals, and is partic ularly prominent in plants (Wendel & Doyle, 2005; Cui et al, 2006; …

Polyploidy has long been recognized as a key process in plant evolution and it is the subject
of a plethora of reviews (for just two recent examples, see Wendel (2015) and Soltis et …

The fate of polyploid lineages has been of long-standing interest to evolutionary biologists.
In our previous work (Mayrose et al., 2011a; reviewed in Arrigo & Barker, 2012), we used …

Autopolyploidy is more common in plants than traditionally assumed, but has received little
attention compared with allopolyploidy. Hence, the advantages and disadvantages of …

The merging of more or less divergent genomes associated with the multiplication of
chromosome sets–known as polyploidy–is a predominant mode of evolution in plants. The …

Polyploidy is a dominant feature of extant plant diversity. However, major research
questions, including whether polyploidy is important to long‐term evolution or is just …

The prevalence of autopolyploids in angiosperms has long been a subject of debate.
Müntzing (1936) and Darlington (1937) concluded that autopolyploids were common and …

Enormous strides have been made in the study of polyploidy over the last 20 yr. Here, we
highlight some of these discoveries and note where our understanding of polyploid …

Difficulties in generating nuclear data for polyploids have impeded phylogenetic study of
these groups. We describe a high‐throughput protocol and an associated bioinformatics …