Polyploidy: a biological force from cells to ecosystems

DT Fox, DE Soltis, PS Soltis, TL Ashman… - Trends in Cell …, 2020 - cell.com
Polyploidy, resulting from the duplication of the entire genome of an organism or cell, greatly
affects genes and genomes, cells and tissues, organisms, and even entire ecosystems …

Mechanisms of intrinsic postzygotic isolation: from traditional genic and chromosomal views to genomic and epigenetic perspectives

R Reifová, SL Ament-Velásquez… - Cold Spring …, 2023 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Intrinsic postzygotic isolation typically appears as reduced viability or fertility of interspecific
hybrids caused by genetic incompatibilities between diverged parental genomes …

The transcriptional landscape of polyploid wheat

RH Ramírez-González, P Borrill, D Lang… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Polyploidy, arising from whole-genome duplication or interspecific
hybridization, is ubiquitous across the plant and fungal kingdoms. The presence of highly …

Polyploidy, the nucleotype, and novelty: the impact of genome doubling on the biology of the cell

JJ Doyle, JE Coate - International Journal of Plant Sciences, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Polyploidy is a key mechanism of genome evolution and speciation, particularly in plants.
Many aspects of polyploidy have been elucidated with the tools that have become available …

Lineage-specific rediploidization is a mechanism to explain time-lags between genome duplication and evolutionary diversification

FM Robertson, MK Gundappa, F Grammes… - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
Background The functional divergence of duplicate genes (ohnologues) retained from whole
genome duplication (WGD) is thought to promote evolutionary diversification. However …

[HTML][HTML] Origins, evolution, domestication and diversity of Saccharomyces beer yeasts

B Gallone, S Mertens, JL Gordon, S Maere… - Current opinion in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Traditional beer brewing provided the perfect setting for microbial domestication.•
Saccharomyces beer yeasts have been domesticated on multiple occasions.•Domestication …

Transcription factor evolution in eukaryotes and the assembly of the regulatory toolkit in multicellular lineages

A de Mendoza, A Sebé-Pedrós… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Transcription factors (TFs) are the main players in transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes.
However, it remains unclear what role TFs played in the origin of all of the different …

Unreduced gametes: meiotic mishap or evolutionary mechanism?

AS Mason, JC Pires - Trends in Genetics, 2015 - cell.com
Unreduced gametes (gametes with the somatic chromosome number) are known to facilitate
polyploid formation. Unreduced gametes result from a plethora of different mechanisms …

Fungal evolution: cellular, genomic and metabolic complexity

MA Naranjo‐Ortiz, T Gabaldón - Biological Reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The question of how phenotypic and genomic complexity are inter‐related and how they are
shaped through evolution is a central question in biology that historically has been …

ChromEvol: assessing the pattern of chromosome number evolution and the inference of polyploidy along a phylogeny

L Glick, I Mayrose - Molecular biology and evolution, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We announce the release of chromEvol version 2.0, a software tool for inferring the pattern
of chromosome number change along a phylogeny. The software facilitates the inference of …