Rapid plant genome evolution is crucial to adapt to environmental changes. Chromosomal
rearrangements and gene copy number variation (CNV) are two important tools for genome …

Background The sharp increase of plant genome and transcriptome data provide valuable
resources to investigate evolutionary consequences of gene duplication in a range of taxa …

Tandem duplication is a wide-spread phenomenon in plant genomes and plays significant
roles in evolution and adaptation to changing environments. Tandem duplicated genes …

Whole genome duplication (WGD) and tandem duplication (TD) are both important modes of
gene expansion. However, how WGD influences tandemly duplicated genes is not well …

Whole-genome duplications happen repeatedly in a typical flowering plant lineage.
Following most ancient tetraploidies, the two subgenomes are distinguishable because one …

The evolutionary origins of the multitude of duplicate genes in the plant genomes are still
incompletely understood. To gain an appreciation of the potential selective forces acting on …

The importance of gene gain through duplication has long been appreciated. In contrast, the
importance of gene loss has only recently attracted attention. Indeed, studies in organisms …

Multiple ancient genome duplications in Arabidopsis thaliana provide unique opportunities
to assess factors that influence the fates of duplicated genes. We have found that genes …

Given the prevalence of duplicate genes and genomes in plant species, the study of their
evolutionary dynamics has been a focus of study in plant evolutionary genetics over the past …

Ancient duplication events and a high rate of retention of extant pairs of duplicate genes
have contributed to an abundance of duplicate genes in plant genomes. These duplicates …