ReviewHeredity2013
Polyploidy and its effect on evolutionary success: old questions revisited with new tools.
Review in Heredity, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 172 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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172 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Nucleo-cytoplasmic compatibility in interspecies Saccharomyces hybrids and the destabilisation of the mitogenome by allospecific recombination.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- How environment and genetic architecture of unreduced gametes shape the establishment of autopolyploids.Heredity · 2026Article
- Polyploidy drives structural and functional evolution in Camellia mitochondrial genomes.BMC genomics · 2026Article
- The more, the better? Stress response in related polyploid ferns.microPublication biology · 2026Article
- Adaptive Strategies Mediating the Diversification of Alpine Plants: The Case of the Himalayan Blue Poppy (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- The hidden threat: genetic load dynamics in tetraploids and diploids.Evolution letters · 2025Article
- Metabolic Consequences of Hybridization in European Water Frogs (Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- The dual role of whole-genome duplication: biological mechanisms, functional consequences, and detection advances.Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica · 2025Review
- Whole genome duplication drives transcriptome reprogramming in response to drought in alfalfa.Plant cell reports · 2025Article
- Insect visitation patterns in diploid Centaurea aspera and its related allotetraploid and triploid hybrids: Similar rates but distinct assemblages.American journal of botany · 2025Article
- Codon usage bias is presumably affected by tRNA selection effects in Actinidia polyploidization events.BMC genomics · 2025Article
- Whole-genome duplication leads to significant but inconsistent changes in climatic niche.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Natural neopolyploids: a stimulus for novel research.The New phytologist · 2025Review
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- A wide range of chromosome numbers result from unreduced gamete production in Brassica juncea × B. napus (AABC) interspecific hybrids.Heredity · 2025Article
- Unveiling an asymmetric plant-fungal symbiosis: morphological, cytogenetic, and molecular characterization of a haploidIMA fungus · 2025Article
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Abstract
Polyploidy, the condition of possessing more than two complete genomes in a cell, has intrigued biologists for almost a century. Polyploidy is found in many plants and some animal species and today we know that polyploidy has had a role in the evolution of all angiosperms. Despite its widespread occurrence, the direct effect of polyploidy on evolutionary success of a species is still largely unknown. Over the years many attractive hypotheses have been proposed in an attempt to assign functionality to the increased content of a duplicated genome. Among these hypotheses are the proposal that genome doubling confers distinct advantages to a polyploid and that these advantages allow polyploids to thrive in environments that pose challenges to the polyploid's diploid progenitors. This article revisits these long-standing questions and explores how the integration of recent genomic developments with ecological, physiological and evolutionary perspectives has contributed to addressing unresolved problems about the role of polyploidy. Although unsatisfactory, the current conclusion has to be that despite significant progress, there still isn't enough information to unequivocally answer many unresolved questions about cause and effect of polyploidy on evolutionary success of a species. There is, however, reason to believe that the increasingly integrative approaches discussed here should allow us in the future to make more direct connections between the effects of polyploidy on the genome and the responses this condition elicits from the organism living in its natural environment.
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