Jeremy E. Coate

TL;DR: This work updates the old but still relevant concept of polyploidy, focusing on what current knowledge from cell biology can elucidate about how quantitative differences between diploids and isogenic autopolyploids could lead to phenotypic differences.

TL;DR: Investigating scaling relationships between ploidy and size by simultaneously quantifying nuclear size, cell size, and organ size in sepals from an isogenic series of diploid, tetraploids, and octoploid Arabidopsis thaliana plants sheds light on how size is regulated in plants and how cells and organisms of differing sizes are generated by ploidY change.

TL;DR: This work reanalyse recent data from this system within the conceptual framework of parental legacies on duplicate gene expression in allopolyploids of Tragopogon (Asteraceae) and highlights the intellectual connection between Gottlieb's phrasing of this issue and the more contemporary framework of cis- versus trans-regulation of duplicate gene Expression inallopolyploid plants.

TL;DR: A novel metric developed to address issues arising from high degrees of gene space duplication and a method for dissecting a gene's measured transcript level in a polyploid species into the relative contribution of its homoeologues are presented.

TL;DR: An assay for estimating relative expression per cell is described and this experimental approach will add value to transcript profiling experiments involving interspecies and interploidy comparisons by converting expression per transcriptome to expression per genome, eliminating the need for assumptions about transcriptome size.