Nature Communications (May 2021)

The neutral rate of whole-genome duplication varies among yeast species and their hybrids

  • S. Marsit,
  • M. Hénault,
  • G. Charron,
  • A. Fijarczyk,
  • C. R. Landry

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23231-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The interaction between hybridisation and polyploidisation is thought to play an important role in eukaryote speciation. Here the authors sequence yeast crosses and show associations between hybridisation, genome instability, and genome duplication, suggesting these may have roles in the establishment of new hybrids.