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The Royal Society, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 1434(358), p. 1149-1155, 2003

DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1305

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Do the different parental 'heteromes' cause genomic shock in newly formed allopolyploids?

Journal article published in 2003 by Luca Comai ORCID, Andreas Madlung, Caroline Josefsson, Anand Tyagi
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Abstract

Allopolyploidy, the joining of two parental genomes in a polyploid organism with diploid meiosis, is an important mechanism of reticulate evolution. While many successful long-established allopolyploids are known, those formed recently undergo an instability phase whose basis is now being characterized. We describe observations made with the Arabidopsis system that include phenotypic instability, gene silencing and activation, and methylation changes. We present a model based on the epigenetic destabilization of genomic repeats, which in the parents are heterochromatinized and suppressed. We hypothesize that loss of epigenetic suppression of these sequences, here defined as the heterome, results in genomic instability including silencing of single-copy genes.