linkedin post 2016-10-04 06:15:48
SPECIATION. "Polyploidy has long been proposed as a mechanism of “instant speciation”, but empirical analyses of this contention are relatively rare." https://lnkd.in/e5Q_ate View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2016-10-04 06:24:46
Yoshinori Ohsumi wins Nobel prize in medicine for work on autophagy http://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/03/yoshinori-ohsumi-wins-nobel-prize-in-medicine?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2016-10-05 05:53:13
NUMEROUS STARTS. "A unique aspect of polyploidy is that many polyploid species may trace their ancestry to numerous, independent origins." https://lnkd.in/bCmw3Fr View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2016-10-05 05:55:37
PLANT GENETIC HISTORIES. "Although polyploidy may have experienced a nadir of interest during the latter half of the 20th century, the sequencing and analyses of plant genomes have revealed numerous cycles of polyploidy in the history of nearly all land plants." https://lnkd.in/bCmw3Fr View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2016-10-05 05:58:43
KNOCK-ON EFFECTS OF PLOIDY. "Polyploidy is a common mode of speciation that can have far-reaching consequences for plant ecology and evolution. Because polyploidy can induce an array of phenotypic changes, there can be cascading effects on interactions with other species. These interactions, in turn, can have reciprocal effects on polyploid plants, potentially impacting their establishment and persistence." https://lnkd.in/bCmw3Fr View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2016-10-05 06:03:34
RANGE OF IMPACTS. "Here we reviewed the available evidence for how polyploidy may impact many types of species interactions that range from mutualism to antagonism." https://lnkd.in/bCmw3Fr View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2016-10-05 06:04:50
QUESTION 1. "Does polyploidy directly cause the formation of novel interactions not experienced by diploids, or does it create an opportunity for natural selection to then form novel interactions?" https://lnkd.in/bCmw3Fr View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2016-10-05 06:06:58
QUESTION 2. "Does polyploidy cause consistent, predictable changes in species interactions vs. the evolution of idiosyncratic differences?" https://lnkd.in/bCmw3Fr View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2016-10-05 06:08:03
QUESTION 3. "Does polyploidy lead to greater evolvability in species interactions?" https://lnkd.in/bCmw3Fr View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2016-10-05 06:29:37
Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to British trio for study of exotic matter View in LinkedIn