The impact of dosage-sensitive gene families on plant evolution and their use as genome duplication markers Ghent University
Whole-genome duplications (WGDs) in plants and other organisms are important evolutionary events that have been linked to survival of ecological catastrophes, increased speciation, expansion of the regulatory repertoire of species and evolutionary innovation. But many questions concerning the involvement of WGDs in these processes remain unresolved. We propose to study the impact of WGDs on plant diversification in more detail. We will make ...