Persistence of subgenomes in paleopolyploid cotton after 60 my of evolution

S Renny-Byfield, L Gong, JP Gallagher… - … biology and evolution, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The importance of whole-genome multiplication (WGM) in plant evolution has long been
recognized. In flowering plants, WGM is both ubiquitous and in many lineages cyclical, each …

Ancient Gene Duplicates in Gossypium (Cotton) Exhibit Near-Complete Expression Divergence

S Renny-Byfield, JP Gallagher… - Genome biology and …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Whole genome duplication (WGD) is widespread in flowering plants and is a driving force in
angiosperm diversification. The redundancy introduced by WGD allows the evolution of …

Duplicate gene evolution, homoeologous recombination, and transcriptome characterization in allopolyploid cotton

LE Flagel, JF Wendel, JA Udall - BMC genomics, 2012 - Springer
Background Modern allotetraploid cotton contains an “A” and “D” genome from an ancestral
polyploidy event that occurred approximately 1–2 million years ago. Diploid A-and D …

Reciprocal silencing, transcriptional bias and functional divergence of homeologs in polyploid cotton (Gossypium)

B Chaudhary, L Flagel, RM Stupar, JA Udall… - Genetics, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Polyploidy is an important force in the evolution of flowering plants. Genomic merger and
doubling induce an extensive array of genomic effects, including immediate and long-term …

In polyploids, one plus one does not equal two

SP Otto - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2003 - cell.com
Polyploidization has occurred often in the evolutionary history of eukaryotes, yet we are only
now learning about the genetic and epigenetic events that occur in newly formed polyploids …

Subgenome-aware analyses reveal the genomic consequences of ancient allopolyploid hybridizations throughout the cotton family

P Sun, Z Lu, Z Wang, S Wang, K Zhao… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Malvaceae comprise some 4,225 species in 243 genera and nine subfamilies and include
economically important species, such as cacao, cotton, durian, and jute, with cotton an …

The long and short of doubling down: polyploidy, epigenetics, and the temporal dynamics of genome fractionation

JF Wendel, D Lisch, G Hu, AS Mason - Current opinion in genetics & …, 2018 - Elsevier
We consider the rapidly advancing discipline of plant evolutionary genomics, with a focus on
the evolution of polyploid genomes. In many lineages, polyploidy is followed by 'biased …

A phylogenetic analysis of indel dynamics in the cotton genus

CE Grover, Y Yu, RA Wing, AH Paterson… - … biology and evolution, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Genome size evolution is a dynamic process involving counterbalancing mechanisms
whose actions vary across lineages and over time. Whereas the primary mechanism of …

Duplicated genes evolve independently after polyploid formation in cotton

RC Cronn, RL Small, JF Wendel - Proceedings of the …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
Of the many processes that generate gene duplications, polyploidy is unique in that entire
genomes are duplicated. This process has been important in the evolution of many …

RNA-seq in grain unveils fate of neo- and paleopolyploidization events in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

C Pont, F Murat, C Confolent, S Balzergue, J Salse - Genome biology, 2011 - Springer
Background Whole genome duplication is a common evolutionary event in plants. Bread
wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a good model to investigate the impact of paleo-and …