The causes and molecular consequences of polyploidy in flowering plants

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1320, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 16-34

  Moghe, Gaurav D ^a   Shiu, Shin Han ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Expression divergence; Fractionation; Molecular consequences of polyploidy; Plants; Whole genome duplication

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; DNA MODIFICATION; DUPLICATE GENE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GENOME; PLANT STRUCTURES; POLYPLOIDY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STRESS; SURVIVAL; TRANSPOSON;

ADAPTATION; EXPRESSION DIVERGENCE; FRACTIONATION; MOLECULAR CONSEQUENCES OF POLYPLOIDY; PLANTS; WHOLE-GENOME DUPLICATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ENVIRONMENT; FLOWERS; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; PLANTS; POLYPLOIDY;

EID: 84904396503     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12466     Document Type: Article

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