Polyploid speciation - MB120P53E
Title: Polyploid speciation
Czech title: Polyploidní speciace
Guaranteed by: Department of Botany (31-120)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: 5
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Additional information: http://www.ibot.cas.cz/fcm/suda/presentation_honza.html
Note: enabled for web enrollment
the course is taught as cyclical
Guarantor: RNDr. Martin Čertner, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): RNDr. Martin Čertner, Ph.D.
RNDr. Dora Čertnerová, Ph.D.
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Annotation -
The lecture covers is detail various aspects of genome doubling (polyploidisation): its causes, attributes and consequences for the evolution of (not only) vascular plants. Attention is also given to genome size evolution, endoreduplication and to the methods frequently used to study such phenomena.
Last update: Čertner Martin, RNDr., Ph.D. (03.06.2019)
Literature -

Coyne, J.A., and H.A. Orr. 2004. Speciation. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland.

Levin, D.A. 2002. The role of chromosomal change in plant evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Ramsey, J., and D.W. Schemske. 1998. Pathways, mechanisms, and rates of polyploid formation in flowering plants. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 29: 467–501.

Ramsey, J., and D.W. Schemske. 2002. Neopolyploidy in flowering plants. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 33: 589–639.

Leitch, I.J., Greilhuber, J., Doležel, J., and J. Wendel. 2013. Plant Genome Diversity Volume 2: Physical Structure, Behaviour and Evolution of Plant Genomes. Springer-Verlag, Wien.

Kolář, F., Čertner, M., Suda, J., Schönswetter, P., and B.C. Husband. 2017. Mixed-ploidy species: Progress and opportunities in polyploid research. Trends in Plant Science 22(12): 1041–1055.

Last update: Čertner Martin, RNDr., Ph.D. (03.06.2019)
Requirements to the exam -

Oral exam is based on topics covered in the lecture.

Last update: Čertner Martin, RNDr., Ph.D. (03.06.2019)
Syllabus -

1) Polyploidy in plants and animals

 

2) Types of polyploids

 

3) Origin of polyploid mutants

 

4) Polyploid establishment in diploid populations, ploidy coexistence

 

5) Cytogeography – the study of cytotypes’ distribution

 

6) Evolutionary advantages and disadvantages of being polyploid

 

7) Phenotypic novelty in polyploids

 

8) The genetics of polyploids

 

9) Evolution of diploid – polyploid complexes

 

10) Case studies in plants

 

11) Genome size evolution

 

12) Methods to study polyploidy

Last update: Čertner Martin, RNDr., Ph.D. (03.06.2019)