Are polyploids really evolutionary dead-ends (again)? A critical reappraisal of Mayrose et al. ()

New Phytol. 2014 Jun;202(4):1105-1117. doi: 10.1111/nph.12756. Epub 2014 Apr 22.

Douglas E Soltis^{1

2

3}, María Claudia Segovia-Salcedo^{1

4}, Ingrid Jordon-Thaden^{1

5}, Lucas Majure¹, Nicolas M Miles¹, Evgeny V Mavrodiev², Wenbin Mei³, María Beatriz Cortez¹, Pamela S Soltis^{2

3}, Matthew A Gitzendanner^{1

3}

¹ Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA.
² Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA.
³ Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA.
⁴ Grupo de Investigacíon Conservación de Bosques de Polylepis, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida y de la Agricultura, Universidad de la Fuerzas Armadas - ESPE, Sangolquí, Ecuador.
⁵ University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.

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Keywords: diversification; evolutionary dead end; extinction; genome doubling; polyploidy.

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