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Lessons from natural and artificial polyploids in higher plants.
Cytogenetic and genome research - 1 Jan 2013
Hegarty M, Coate J, Sherman-Broyles S, Abbott R, Hiscock S, Doyle J
Abstract excerpt
Polyploidy in higher plants is a major source of genetic novelty upon which selection may act to drive evolution, as evidenced by the widespread success of polyploid species in the wild. However, research into the effects of polyploidy can be confounded by the entanglement of several processes: genome duplication, hybridisation (allopolyploidy is frequent in plants) and subsequent evolution. The discovery of the...
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