Evolutionary BiologyThe Plant JournalPeer-reviewed
Decrease in Purifying Selection Pressures on Wheat Homoeologous Genes: Tetraploidization vs Hexaploidization
Akihiro Ezoe, Daisuke Todaka, Yoshinori Utsumi…·Motoaki Seki
The paper compares the impact of tetraploidization and hexaploidization on selection pressures of homoeologous genes in wheat, finding tetraploidization has a greater effect.