Genome Expression Balance in a Triploid Trihybrid Vertebrate.

ABSTRACT: Polyploidy is increasingly recognized as a driver of biological diversity. How and why polyploidization affects gene expression is critical to understanding the link between ploidy elevation and diversification. In polyploid plants, multiple studies have demonstrated that ploidy elevation can confer major but variable consequences for gene expression, ranging from gene-by-gene alterations to entirely silenced genomes. By contrast, animal polyploids remain largely uncharacterized. Accordingly, how animals respond to and manage polyploidy events is not understood. Here, we address this important knowledge gap by analyzing transcriptomes from a triploid hybrid animal, a unisexual Ambystoma salamander, and three sexual Ambystoma species that represent all three parental genomes in the unisexua

SUBMITTER: McElroy KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5396480 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature