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Turning four into two: How duplicated genomes become diploid again

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Turning four into two: How duplicated genomes become diploid again
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Genome duplication probably gave biodiversity a decisive evolutionary boost. A Chinese-German research team led by Axel Meyer from the University of Konstanz has now investigated the early phases of the process known as rediploidization. The results show that the fusion of chromosome sets is asynchronous. The research is published in the journal Nature.

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