Trends in polyploidy research in animals and plants /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Stöck, Matthias, Lamatsch, Dunja K.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basel : Karger, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • Why changing polyploidy research in animals and plants?
  • Natural pathways to polyploidy in plants and consequences for genome reorganization
  • Natural pathways towards polyploidy in animals: the Squalius alburnoides fish complex as a model system to study genome size and genome reorganization in polyploids
  • Genetic and genomic interactions of animals with different ploidy levels
  • Evolutionary consequences, constraints and potential of polyploidy in plants
  • Rise and persistence of animal polyploidy: evolutionary constraints and potential
  • Meiosis and its deviations in polyploid plants
  • Meiosis and its deviations in polyploid animals
  • Lessons from natural and artificial polyploids in higher plants
  • Genomic constitution and atypical reproduction in polyploid and unisexual lineages of the Misgurnus loach, a teleost fish
  • Revisiting the Dioecy-Polyploidy Association: alternate pathways and research opportunities
  • Polyploidy in animals: effects of gene expression on sex determination, evolution and ecology
  • Genetic and epigenetic aspects of polyploid evolution in plants
  • Retrotransposons represent the most labile fraction for genomic rearrangements in polyploid plant species
  • Genetic and epigenetic changes involving (retro)transposons in animal hybrids and polyploids