Studies of the macroevolutionary legacy of polyploidy are limited by an incomplete sampling
of these events across the tree of life. To better locate and understand these events, we …

PREMISE OF STUDY: The carnivorous members of the large, hyperdiverse Caryophyllales
(eg, Venus flytrap, sundews, and Nepenthes pitcher plants) represent perhaps the oldest …

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

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

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 …

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 …

The role played by whole genome duplication (WGD) in plant evolution is actively debated.
WGD s have been associated with advantages such as superior colonization, various …

Many phylogenomic studies based on transcriptomes have been limited to “single-copy”
genes due to methodological challenges in homology and orthology inferences. Only a …

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 …

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 …