| Literature DB >> 17841005 |
C R Werth, S I Guttman, W H Eshbaugh.
Abstract
A large proportion of plant species has originated through allopolyploidy: interspecific hybridization followed by chromosome doubling. Heterozygosity remains fixed in allopolyploids because of nonsegregation of parental chromosomes. Two allotetraploid species of the fern genus Asplenium show allozyme polymorphisms at loci that are polymorphic in their diploid progenitors, indicating that each has originated more than once and implicating continued gene flow from diploids to tetraploids.Year: 1985 PMID: 17841005 DOI: 10.1126/science.228.4700.731
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728