Is post-polyploidization diploidization the key to the evolutionary success of angiosperms?

S Dodsworth, MW Chase… - Botanical Journal of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Advances in recent years have revolutionized our understanding of both the context and
occurrence of polyploidy in plants. Molecular phylogenetics has vastly improved our …

Relaxed purifying selection in autopolyploids drives transposable element over-accumulation which provides variants for local adaptation

P Baduel, L Quadrana, B Hunter, K Bomblies… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Polyploidization is frequently associated with increased transposable element (TE) content.
However, what drives TE dynamics following whole genome duplication (WGD) and the …

Impact of transposable elements on the organization and function of allopolyploid genomes

C Parisod, K Alix, J Just, M Petit, V Sarilar… - New …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Transposable elements (TEs) represent an important fraction of plant genomes and are
likely to play a pivotal role in fuelling genome reorganization and functional changes …

Polyploidy and novelty: Gottlieb's legacy

PS Soltis, X Liu, DB Marchant… - … Transactions of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Nearly four decades ago, Roose & Gottlieb (Roose & Gottlieb 1976 Evolution 30, 818–
830.(doi: 10.2307/2407821)) showed that the recently derived allotetraploids Tragopogon …

Ecological and genetic factors linked to contrasting genome dynamics in seed plants

AR Leitch, IJ Leitch - New Phytologist, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The large‐scale replacement of gymnosperms by angiosperms in many ecological niches
over time and the huge disparity in species numbers have led scientists to explore factors …

Genetic diversity of cultivated flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) germplasm assessed by retrotransposon-based markers

P Smýkal, N Bačová-Kerteszová, R Kalendar… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2011 - Springer
Retrotransposon segments were characterized and inter-retrotransposon amplified
polymorphism (IRAP) markers developed for cultivated flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) and the …

Genetic and epigenetic aspects of polyploid evolution in plants

A Madlung, JF Wendel - Cytogenetic and genome research, 2013 - karger.com
Polyploidy, the condition of possessing more than 2 complete chromosome sets in the same
nucleus, is frequent in nature and has implications for a species' prospects for evolution …

Natural pathways to polyploidy in plants and consequences for genome reorganization

A Tayalé, C Parisod - Cytogenetic and genome research, 2013 - karger.com
The last decade highlighted polyploidy as a rampant evolutionary process that triggers
drastic genome reorganization, but much remains to be understood about their causes and …

Genomic and meiotic changes accompanying polyploidization

F Blasio, P Prieto, M Pradillo, T Naranjo - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Hybridization and polyploidy have been considered as significant evolutionary forces in
adaptation and speciation, especially among plants. Interspecific gene flow generates novel …

Next Generation Sequencing Reveals Genome Downsizing in Allotetraploid Nicotiana tabacum, Predominantly through the Elimination of Paternally Derived …

S Renny-Byfield, M Chester, A Kovařík… - Molecular biology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We used next generation sequencing to characterize and compare the genomes of the
recently derived allotetraploid, Nicotiana tabacum (< 200,000 years old), with its diploid …