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Do the different parental 'heteromes' cause genomic shock in newly formed allopolyploids?
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 29 Jun 2003
Comai Luca, Madlung Andreas, Josefsson Caroline, Tyagi Anand
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Allopolyploidy, the joining of two parental genomes in a polyploid organism with diploid meiosis, is an important mechanism of reticulate evolution. While many successful long-established allopolyploids are known, those formed recently undergo an instability phase whose basis is now being characterized. We describe observations made with the Arabidopsis system that include phenotypic instability, gene silencing...
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