Is lack of cycad (Cycadales) diversity a result of a lack of polyploidy?

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 156-167

  Gorelick, Root ^a   Olson, Krystle ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chromosomal duplication; Chromosomal fission; Cytosine methylation; Epigenetics; Gymnosperms; Karyotypic fission; Paedomorphism; Radiation; Seed plants; Stasis; Whole genome duplication

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CHROMOSOME; EPISTASIS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME; GYMNOSPERM; HETEROCHRONY (ONTOGENY); HORMONE; METHYLATION; POLYPLOIDY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CYCADALES; CYCADOPSIDA; GYMNOSPERMAE; SPERMATOPHYTA; ZAMIA;

EID: 78651084497     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2010.01103.x     Document Type: Article

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