What is it about?
Whole Genome Duplication leading to polyploidy have been recognized as a major mechanism to enhance plant diversity. This study confirms the importance of both neo- and paleo-polyploidy in the assembly of the diversity of the derived fern genus Asplenium.
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Why is it important?
The study provide critical insights to the accumulation of plant diversity that is driven by whole genome duplications. most importantly it shows that ancient polyploidy is more important in tropical habitats whereas temperate polyploidy are mostly recently formed (neopolyploidy).
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This page is a summary of: Neo- and Paleopolyploidy contribute to the species diversity of Asplenium
-the most species-rich genus of ferns, Journal of Systematics and Evolution, July 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jse.12271.
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