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Polyploidy-associated genomic instability in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000) - 1 Apr 2010
Wang Yixing, Jha Ajay K, Chen Rujin, Doonan John H, Yang Ming
Abstract excerpt
Formation of polyploid organisms by fertilization of unreduced gametes in meiotic mutants is believed to be a common phenomenon in species evolution. However, not well understood is how species in nature generally exist as haploid and diploid organisms in a long evolutionary time while polyploidization must have repeatedly occurred via meiotic mutations. Here, we show that the ploidy increased for two consecutive...
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