Polyploidy in Amphibia Journal Articles

abstract

• This review summarizes the current status of the known extant genuine polyploid anuran and urodelan species, as well as spontaneously originated and/or experimentally produced amphibian polyploids. The mechanisms by which polyploids can originate, the meiotic pairing configurations, the diploidization processes operating in polyploid genomes, the phenomenon of hybridogenesis, and the relationship between polyploidization and sex chromosome evolution are discussed. The polyploid systems in some important amphibian taxa are described in more detail.

authors

• Schmid, Michael
• Evans, Ben
• Bogart, James P

status

• published 

publication date

• 2015

has subject area

• 0604 Genetics (FoR)
• Amphibians (MeSH)
• Animals (MeSH)
• Cell Fusion (MeSH)
• Chromosome Duplication (MeSH)
• Diploidy (MeSH)
• Female (MeSH)
• Genetic Techniques (MeSH)
• Genetics & Heredity (Science Metrix)
• Germ Cells (MeSH)
• Hybridization, Genetic (MeSH)
• Larva (MeSH)
• Male (MeSH)
• Meiosis (MeSH)
• Models, Genetic (MeSH)
• Polyploidy (MeSH)
• Ranidae (MeSH)
• Sex Chromosomes (MeSH)
• Species Specificity (MeSH)
• Xenopus (MeSH)

published in

• Cytogenetic and Genome Research  Journal

keywords

• Amphibians
• Animals
• Cell Fusion
• Chromosome Duplication
• Diploidy
• Female
• Genetic Techniques
• Germ Cells
• Hybridization, Genetic
• Larva
• Male
• Meiosis
• Models, Genetic
• Polyploidy
• Ranidae
• Sex Chromosomes
• Species Specificity
• Xenopus

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1159/000431388

PubMed ID

• 26112701

start page

• 315

end page

• 330

volume

• 145

issue

• 3-4