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Increasing human pressure combined with sea level rise and increased storminess is threatening coastal ecosystems around the world. Among these ecosystems, saltmarshes are particularly endangered due to their position in temperate areas with low wave action where human density i…

Biological conservation will benefit from an increased focus on the prevalence and impact of polyploidy (whole genome duplication) in natural Angiosperm (flowering plants) systems. The role of polyploidy in flowering plants has largely been overlooked within the broader context …

Gene and genome duplications have occurred frequently throughout eukaryotic evolutionary history. The accumulation of genetic changes in these gene copies can then lead to evolutionary innovations in later lineages. The preferential retention and biased loss of duplicated genes …