where organisms must undergo significant phenotypic shifts to survive. Polyploid organisms evolve more slowly in the smooth fitness landscapes due to reduced genetic variance, making it harder for ...

Polyploid organisms evolve more slowly in the smooth fitness landscapes due to reduced genetic variance, making it harder for beneficial mutations to take hold. Ohbayashi adds, "However ...

In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that provides an entire ecosystem on which plants and animals have relied for ...

Polyploidy is the presence in cells of more than a single pair of each chromosome. Polyploidy can be the result of a spontaneous multiplication of a plants genetic material or through ...

This month's cover highlights the article RudLOV is an optically synchronized cargo transport method revealing unexpected effects of dynasore by Akiko K. Satoh, Takunori Satoh and colleagues. The ...

Polyploid plants like bananas (Musa spp.) face the problem of drought and black sigatoka disease (BSD) that restrict their production. The conventional plant breeding is experiencing difficulties, ...

Polyploidy is a state in which an organism or cell contains two or more basic sets ... to characterize the degree of divergence between subgenomes of a polyploid, to find whether there has been a ...