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To review the prevalence of ancient polyploidy events across flowering plant lineages and evaluate their impact on angiosperm diversification and species richness.

January 1, 2009American Journal of Botany

Polyploidy and angiosperm diversification

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To review the prevalence of ancient polyploidy events across flowering plant lineages and evaluate their impact on angiosperm diversification and species richness.
Synthesized recent comparative plant genomic data and ancestral genome reconstruction models across basal and core angiosperm lineages.
Evaluated lineage-specific diversification rates alongside documented whole-genome duplication occurrences in major families, including Poaceae, Solanaceae, Fabaceae, and Brassicaceae.
Ancient whole-genome duplications occurred throughout basal angiosperm lineages and near eudicot divergence as paleohexaploidy, though Amborella lacks evidence of genome duplication.
Genome doubling correlates with substantial increases in species richness and subsequent adaptive radiations across several prominent angiosperm families.

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Genomic review reveals widespread ancient genome-doubling events across flowering plant lineages, suggesting polyploidy repeatedly drove species diversification and evolutionary novelty.

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Soltis et al. (2009) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d76350f44a16d01ef30c49 https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.0800079

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Genomic review reveals widespread ancient genome-doubling events across flowering plant lineages, suggesting polyploidy repeatedly drove species diversification and evolutionary novelty.

Polyploidy and angiosperm diversification

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