Methods for studying polyploid diversification and the dead end hypothesis: a reply to Soltis et al. (2014)

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¹ Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
² Department of Zoology & Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6J 3S7, Canada.
³ Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, CH - 105, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA.
⁵ Department of Botany & Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6J 3S7, Canada.

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Itay Mayrose et al. New Phytol. 2015 Apr.

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doi: 10.1111/nph.13192. Epub 2014 Dec 4.

¹ Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
² Department of Zoology & Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6J 3S7, Canada.
³ Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, CH - 105, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA.
⁵ Department of Botany & Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6J 3S7, Canada.

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Keywords: binary-state speciation and extinction (BiSSE); diversification; extinction; meta-analysis; polyploidy; speciation.

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Recently formed polyploid plants diversify at lower rates.
Mayrose I, Zhan SH, Rothfels CJ, Magnuson-Ford K, Barker MS, Rieseberg LH, Otto SP. Mayrose I, et al. Science. 2011 Sep 2;333(6047):1257. doi: 10.1126/science.1207205. Epub 2011 Aug 18. Science. 2011. PMID: 21852456
Are polyploids really evolutionary dead-ends (again)? A critical reappraisal of Mayrose et al. ().
Soltis DE, Segovia-Salcedo MC, Jordon-Thaden I, Majure L, Miles NM, Mavrodiev EV, Mei W, Cortez MB, Soltis PS, Gitzendanner MA. Soltis DE, et al. New Phytol. 2014 Jun;202(4):1105-1117. doi: 10.1111/nph.12756. Epub 2014 Apr 22. New Phytol. 2014. PMID: 24754325 No abstract available.

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