Factors promoting polyploid persistence and diversification and limiting diploid speciation during the K-Pg interlude.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2017.09.010
Abstract: The large wave of polyploidization following the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction has been explained by enhanced polyploid persistence arising from adaptive properties of the polyploids themselves, as well as an increase in unreduced gamete production… read more here.
Keywords: polyploid persistence; diversification; persistence; diploid speciation ... See more keywords