Article
The population genetics of ploidy change in unicellular fungi.
FEMS microbiology reviews - 8 Sept 2021
Gerstein Aleeza C, Sharp Nathaniel P
Abstract excerpt
Changes in ploidy are a significant type of genetic variation, describing the number of chromosome sets per cell. Ploidy evolves in natural populations, clinical populations, and lab experiments, particularly in unicellular fungi. Predicting how ploidy will evolve has proven difficult, despite a long history of theoretical work on this topic, as it is often unclear why one ploidy state outperforms another. Here,...
Topics
- Fungi
- Genetics, Population
- Mutation
- Ploidies
- Selection, Genetic