Article
Ploidy Variation in Fungi: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy, and Genome Evolution.
Microbiology spectrum - 1 Jul 2017
Todd Robert T, Forche Anja, Selmecki Anna
Abstract excerpt
The ability of an organism to replicate and segregate its genome with high fidelity is vital to its survival and for the production of future generations. Errors in either of these steps (replication or segregation) can lead to a change in ploidy or chromosome number. While these drastic genome changes can be detrimental to the organism, resulting in decreased fitness, they can also provide increased fitness...
Topics
- Aneuploidy
- Evolution, Molecular
- Fungi
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Fungal
- Ploidies
- Polyploidy