The more the better? The role of polyploidy in facilitating plant invasions
Mariska te Beest,Mariska te Beest,Johannes J. Le Roux,David M. Richardson,Anne K. Brysting,Jan Suda,Jan Suda,Magdalena Kubešová,Magdalena Kubešová,Petr Pyšek,Petr Pyšek +10 more
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Polyploidy can be an important factor in species invasion success through a combination of 'pre-adaptation', whereby polyploid lineages are predisposed to conditions in the new range and, therefore, have higher survival rates and fitness in the earliest establishment phase.About:
This article is published in Annals of Botany.The article was published on 2012-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 653 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.read more
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The evolutionary significance of polyploidy
TL;DR: How, once polyploidy has been established, the unique retention profile of duplicated genes following whole-genome duplication might explain key longer-term evolutionary transitions and a general increase in biological complexity is discussed.
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Polyploidy and genome evolution in plants
TL;DR: Mechanisms of diploidization, evidence of genome reorganization in recently formed polyploid species, and macroevolutionary patterns of WGD in plant genomes are considered and it is proposed that the ongoing genomic changes observed in recent polyploids may illustrate the di ploidization processes that result in ancient signatures of W GD over geological timescales.
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Rethinking phenotypic plasticity and its consequences for individuals, populations and species.
TL;DR: It is claimed that rigorous testing of predictions requires methods that allow for quantifying and comparing whole organism plasticity, as well as the ability to experimentally manipulate the level of and capacity for developmental plasticity and phenotypic flexibility independent of genetic variation.
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Analysis of 41 plant genomes supports a wave of successful genome duplications in association with the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary
TL;DR: It is argued that considering the evolutionary potential of polyploids in light of the environmental and ecological conditions present around the time ofpolyploidization could mitigate the stark contrast in the proposed evolutionary fates of Polyploids.
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What we still don't know about invasion genetics.
Dan G. Bock,Celine Caseys,Roger D. Cousens,Min A. Hahn,Sylvia M. Heredia,Sariel Hübner,Kathryn G. Turner,Kenneth D. Whitney,Loren H. Rieseberg,Loren H. Rieseberg +9 more
TL;DR: The potential for studies of invasion genetics to reveal the limits to evolution and to stimulate the development of practical strategies to either minimize or maximize evolutionary responses to environmental change is discussed.
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An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants : APG III
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Naturalization and invasion of alien plants: concepts and definitions
David M. Richardson,Petr Pyšek,Marcel Rejmánek,Michael G. Barbour,F. Dane Panetta,Carol J. West +5 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that the term ‘invasive’ should be used without any inference to environmental or economic impact, and terms like ‘pests’ and ‘weeds’ are suitable labels for the 50–80% of invaders that have harmful effects.