Andrew R Leitch

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Affiliation: Queen Mary
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Genomic plasticity and the diversity of polyploid plants
    A R Leitch
    School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, London E1 4NS, UK
    Science 320:481-3. 2008
  2. ncbi Similar patterns of rDNA evolution in synthetic and recently formed natural populations of Tragopogon (Asteraceae) allotetraploids
    Hana Malinska
    Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, vvi Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics, Kralovopolska 135, CZ 61265 Brno, Czech Republic
    BMC Evol Biol 10:291. 2010
  3. ncbi Sequence of events leading to near-complete genome turnover in allopolyploid Nicotiana within five million years
    K Yoong Lim
    School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK
    New Phytol 175:756-63. 2007
  4. ncbi Rapid chromosome evolution in recently formed polyploids in Tragopogon (Asteraceae)
    K Yoong Lim
    School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary College, University of London, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 3:e3353. 2008
  5. ncbi Flow cytometry and GISH reveal mixed ploidy populations and Spartina nonaploids with genomes of S. alterniflora and S. maritima origin
    Simon Renny-Byfield
    Queen Mary University of London, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, London E1 4NS, UK
    Ann Bot 105:527-33. 2010
  6. ncbi Next-generation sequencing and genome evolution in allopolyploids
    Richard J A Buggs
    School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
    Am J Bot 99:372-82. 2012
  7. ncbi Comparative genomics and repetitive sequence divergence in the species of diploid Nicotiana section Alatae
    K Yoong Lim
    School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK
    Plant J 48:907-19. 2006

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Publications7

  1. ncbi Genomic plasticity and the diversity of polyploid plants
    A R Leitch
    School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, London E1 4NS, UK
    Science 320:481-3. 2008
    ..This process has been a major driving force behind the divergence of the angiosperms and their biodiversity...
  2. ncbi Similar patterns of rDNA evolution in synthetic and recently formed natural populations of Tragopogon (Asteraceae) allotetraploids
    Hana Malinska
    Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, vvi Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics, Kralovopolska 135, CZ 61265 Brno, Czech Republic
    BMC Evol Biol 10:291. 2010
    ..We investigate the dynamics and directionality of these rDNA losses, as well as the contribution of gene copy number variation in the parental diploids to rDNA variation in the derived tetraploids...
  3. ncbi Sequence of events leading to near-complete genome turnover in allopolyploid Nicotiana within five million years
    K Yoong Lim
    School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK
    New Phytol 175:756-63. 2007
    ..This mode of evolution may influence or be influenced by long-term diploidization processes that characterize angiosperm polyploidy-diploid evolutionary cycles...
  4. ncbi Rapid chromosome evolution in recently formed polyploids in Tragopogon (Asteraceae)
    K Yoong Lim
    School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary College, University of London, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 3:e3353. 2008
    ..That diversity is likely important in the formation, establishment and survival of polyploid populations and species...
  5. ncbi Flow cytometry and GISH reveal mixed ploidy populations and Spartina nonaploids with genomes of S. alterniflora and S. maritima origin
    Simon Renny-Byfield
    Queen Mary University of London, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, London E1 4NS, UK
    Ann Bot 105:527-33. 2010
    ..x townsendii (2n = 60) and a derived allododecaploid S. anglica (2n = 120, 122, 124); the latter two are considered to have originated in Hythe, southern England at the end of the 19th century...
  6. ncbi Next-generation sequencing and genome evolution in allopolyploids
    Richard J A Buggs
    School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
    Am J Bot 99:372-82. 2012
    ..However, recent advances in sequencing and genomics technologies now provide unprecedented opportunities to analyze numerous genetic markers in multiple individuals in any organism...
  7. ncbi Comparative genomics and repetitive sequence divergence in the species of diploid Nicotiana section Alatae
    K Yoong Lim
    School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK
    Plant J 48:907-19. 2006
    ..This rapid rate of divergence is analogous to that found in polyploid species, and is therefore, in plants, not only associated with polyploidy...