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SPECIES INCOMPATIBILITIES. "Asymmetric hybridization can be explained by a variety of mechanisms, including cytonuclear incompatibilities or imbalances in either the ploidy ratio of endosperm to embryo or between maternal to paternal genomes." https://lnkd.in/es_dhAz View in LinkedIn

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OVERCOMING INCOMPATIBILITY. "Repeated backcrossing between an asymmetrically produced hybrid and its paternal pollen source may lead to “cytoplasmic capture,” in which the mitochondria and chloroplasts of the maternal progenitor are combined with the nuclear genome of the paternal progenitor." https://lnkd.in/es_dhAz View in LinkedIn

GLOBAL IMPACT. "The angiosperms have diverged into many more habitats, life forms, and biotic interactions, and as such, the importance of their polyploid heritage cannot be underestimated as a force of truly global impact." https://lnkd.in/eg_D7BR View in LinkedIn

"ASYMMETRIC HYBRIDIZATION has considerable potential for influencing population genetic processes. It generates a predictable bias in cytoplasmic inheritance and, in some cases, can promote unidirectional introgression." https://lnkd.in/es_dhAz View in LinkedIn

ANGIOSPERMS VS VERTEBRATE WGD. "Much of this disparity can be attributed to the different nature of plant vs. animal development vis-à-vis compensation for gene dosage. Subfunctionalization of gene duplicates has been shown to be a prominent molecular evolutionary force for coping with WGD in both flowering plants and ray-finned fish." (WGD = whole genome duplication). https://lnkd.in/eg_D7BR View in LinkedIn

EXCEPTIONAL STATUS. "Despite clear evidence for WGD underlying all vertebrates, many fewer lineage-specific polyploidy events have been detected than among angiosperms, which have a far shorter combined evolutionary history." (WGD = whole genome duplication). https://lnkd.in/eg_D7BR View in LinkedIn

EXPLOSIVE SPECIATION. "Nowhere else in the history of life is the influence of polyploidy more apparent as a possible diversifying force as it is among the angiosperms. Only the tetraploidization event in the stem lineage of ray-finned fish may come close, having potentially resulted in >20 000 living species." https://lnkd.in/eg_D7BR View in LinkedIn

BRILLIANT time-lapse film of Monarch butterfly metamorphosis both as the caterpillar changing into the chrysalis and then emerging from it as an adult butterfly. https://youtu.be/ocWgSgMGxOc View in LinkedIn

SONG OF DARWIN. "The more I study nature, the more I become impressed […] that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations [acquired through natural selection] transcend in an incomparable degree [those] which the most fertile imagination of the most imaginative man could suggest with unlimited time at his disposal." https://lnkd.in/eykUy37 View in LinkedIn