FITNESS ADVANTAGE. “Although we found that autopolyploids and allopolyploids occurred near parity in nature, allopolyploids likely have a significant evolutionary advantage. Autopolyploid plants were probably produced in higher numbers than allopolyploid plants throughout contemporary species’ ranges and over the course of deep time. The differential might have been five-fold or 20-fold.”
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