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Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms for gene expression and phenotypic variation in plant polyploids.
Annual review of plant biology - 1 Jan 2007
Chen Z Jeffrey
Abstract excerpt
Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is an important genomic feature for all eukaryotes, especially many plants and some animals. The common occurrence of polyploidy suggests an evolutionary advantage of having multiple sets of genetic material for adaptive evolution. However, increased gene and genome dosages in autopolyploids (duplications of a single genome) and allopolyploids (combinations of two or...
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