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Sexy males and sexless females: the origin of triploid apomicts.

Heredity - 1 May 2017

Muralidhar P, Haig D

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Apomixis and polyploidy are closely associated in angiosperms, but the evolutionary reason for this association is unknown. Taraxacum officinale, the common dandelion, exists both as diploid sexuals and triploid apomicts. Here, in the context of T. officinale, we provide a model of the evolution of triploid apomicts from diploid sexuals. We posit an apomictic allele that arrests female meiosis in diploids, so...

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PMID: 28074843
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2016.124
PMCID: PMC5520530

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