The advantages and disadvantages of being polyploid

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 836-846

  Comai, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ALLOPOLYPLOIDY; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; AUTOPOLYPLOIDY; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CYTOGENETICS; DIPLOIDY; ENDOREDUPLICATION; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYPLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF INCOMPATIBILITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MODELS, GENETIC; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; POLYPLOIDY;

EID: 33644681986     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1711     Document Type: Review

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