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Polyploid organisms.
Science China. Life sciences - 1 Apr 2012
Song Can, Liu Shaojun, Xiao Jun, He Weiguo, Zhou Yi, Qin Qinbo, Zhang Chun, Liu Yun
Abstract excerpt
Polyploids are organisms with three or more complete chromosome sets. Polyploidization is widespread in plants and animals, and is an important mechanism of speciation. Genome sequencing and related molecular systematics and bioinformatics studies on plants and animals in recent years support the view that species have been shaped by whole genome duplication during evolution. The stability of polyploids depends...
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