Ancient whole genome duplications, novelty and diversification: the WGD Radiation Lag-Time Model

ME Schranz, S Mohammadin, PP Edger - Current opinion in plant biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Many large and economically important plant groups (eg Brassicaceae, Poaceae,
Asteraceae, Fabaceae and Solanaceae) have had ancient whole genome duplications …

Tangled up in two: a burst of genome duplications at the end of the Cretaceous and the consequences for plant evolution

K Vanneste, S Maere… - … Transactions of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Genome sequencing has demonstrated that besides frequent small-scale duplications, large-
scale duplication events such as whole genome duplications (WGDs) are found on many …

Constraining the timing of whole genome duplication in plant evolutionary history

JW Clark, PCJ Donoghue - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Whole genome duplication (WGD) has occurred in many lineages within the tree of life and
is invariably invoked as causal to evolutionary innovation, increased diversity, and extinction …

Analysis of 41 plant genomes supports a wave of successful genome duplications in association with the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary

K Vanneste, G Baele, S Maere… - Genome research, 2014 - genome.cshlp.org
Ancient whole-genome duplications (WGDs), also referred to as paleopolyploidizations,
have been reported in most evolutionary lineages. Their attributed role remains a major …

Genetic contribution of paleopolyploidy to adaptive evolution in angiosperms

S Wu, B Han, Y Jiao - Molecular Plant, 2020 - cell.com
Ancient whole-genome duplications (WGDs or polyploidy) are prevalent in plants, and some
WGDs occurred during the timing of severe global environmental changes. It has been …

Phylogeny and multiple independent whole‐genome duplication events in the Brassicales

ME Mabry, JM Brose, PD Blischak… - American journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Premise Whole‐genome duplications (WGDs) are prevalent throughout the evolutionary
history of plants. For example, dozens of WGDs have been phylogenetically localized across …

Revisiting ancestral polyploidy in plants

C Ruprecht, R Lohaus, K Vanneste, M Mutwil… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Whole-genome duplications (WGDs) or polyploidy events have been studied extensively in
plants. In a now widely cited paper, Jiao et al. presented evidence for two ancient, ancestral …

Plants with double genomes might have had a better chance to survive the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event

JA Fawcett, S Maere… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Most flowering plants have been shown to be ancient polyploids that have undergone one
or more whole genome duplications early in their evolution. Furthermore, many different …

Widespread genome duplications throughout the history of flowering plants

L Cui, PK Wall, JH Leebens-Mack, BG Lindsay… - Genome …, 2006 - genome.cshlp.org
Genomic comparisons provide evidence for ancient genome-wide duplications in a diverse
array of animals and plants. We developed a birth–death model to identify evidence for …

Inferring putative ancient whole-genome duplications in the 1000 Plants (1KP) initiative: access to gene family phylogenies and age distributions

Z Li, MS Barker - GigaScience, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplications (WGDs), repeatedly occurred during
green plant evolution. To examine the evolutionary history of green plants in a …