Reproduction
The advantage of diploidy, heterosis, only exists in the diploid life generation. Bryophytes retain sexual reproduction despite ... Otto, S.P.; Goldstein, D.B. (1992). "Recombination and the Evolution of Diploidy". Genetics. 131 (3): 745-751. doi:10.1093/ ...
Alexey Kondrashov
Haploidy or diploidy: which is better? Nature 351:314-315 Kondrashov AS & Kondrashov FA. 1999. Interactions among quantitative ...
Muscidifurax uniraptor
Gottlieb, Yuval; Zchori-Fein, Einat (4 September 2002). "Diploidy restoration in Wolbachia-infected Muscidifurax uniraptor ( ... where meiosis occurs in the developing oocyte and diploidy is restored by fusing the meiotic or mitotic products yielding ...
Scale insect
In Parthenolecanium, males are born from unfertilized eggs but diploidy is briefly restored by fusion of haploid cleave nuclei ... and based on how diploidy is restored in unfertilized eggs. The evolution of these systems are thought to be the result of ...
Aphytis mytilaspidis
It has been shown that diploidy is restored by terminal fusion. After the first stage of meiosis, the pronucleus fuses with its ...
Karyotype
Haplo-diploidy, where one sex is diploid, and the other haploid. It is a common arrangement in the Hymenoptera, and in some ... A major exception to diploidy in humans is gametes (sperm and egg cells) which are haploid with 23 unpaired chromosomes, and ...
Sexual reproduction
Kleiman, Maya; Tannenbaum, Emmanuel (2009). "Diploidy and the selective advantage for sexual reproduction in unicellular ...
Ploidy
Escargot (transcription factor)
Other functions of the esg include Esg maintains diploidy in imaginal cells. Esg mutant flies showed polyploid abdominal ... Fuse, N; Hirose, S; Hayashi, S (1994-10-01). "Diploidy of Drosophila imaginal cells is maintained by a transcriptional ...
Agricultural biotechnology
Usually, organisms have two sets of chromosomes, otherwise known as a diploidy. However, either naturally or through the use of ...
Raymond Carl Jackson
doi:10.1002/j.1537-2197.1982.tb13284.x. Jackson, R. C. (1982). "Polyploidy and Diploidy: New Perspectives on Chromosome Pairing ...
Vasectomy
The higher rates of aneuploidy and diploidy in the sperm cells of those who have undergone vasectomy reversal may lead to a ... Sukcharoen, Nares; Ngeamvijawat, J; Sithipravej, T; Promviengchai, S (2003). "High sex chromosome aneuploidy and diploidy rate ...
Poeciliopsis monacha
This fertilization restores diploidy and results in expression of maternal and paternal traits in somatic tissue. These ...
Uniparental disomy
Genome wide UPD, also called uniparental diploidy, is when all chromosomes are inherited from one parent. Only in mosaic form ...
Parthenogenesis
Diploidy might be restored by the doubling of the chromosomes without cell division before meiosis begins or after meiosis is ... the ploidy is restored to diploidy by various means. This is because haploid individuals are not viable in most species. In ...
Blastomere
This disorder is called "numerical mosaicism". This mosaicism, especially of diploidy and polyploidy, can lead to the failure ...
Interferon type I
For instance, the overall survival of patients with brain glioma reduced from 93 months (diploidy) to 24 months. In conclusion ...
Inflammatory breast cancer
Loss of diploidy (heterozygosity) and extensive breast inflammation upon first clinical examination are associated with a ...
Automixis
Diploidy might be restored by the doubling of the chromosomes without cell division before meiosis begins or after meiosis is ...
Leucanthemum ircutianum
... vulgare exhibiting diploidy. They have mostly similar distribution area in Europe, but L. vulgare is more common in North ...
Polymorphism (biology)
In Hymenoptera (ants, bees and wasps), sex determination is by haplo-diploidy: the females are all diploid, the males are ...
Androgenesis
Diploidy occurs through either the fusion of two haploid sperm cells or the duplication of chromosomes from one haploid sperm ...
Genetic drift
Consider a gene with two alleles, A or B. In diploidy, populations consisting of N individuals have 2N copies of each gene. An ...
Liocheles australasiae
Yamazaki K, Yahata H, Kobayashi N, Makioka T. Egg maturation and parthenogenetic recovery of diploidy in the scorpion Liocheles ...
1000 Plant Genomes Project
... diploidy). These duplicated genes may pose a problem for the de novo assembly of sequence fragments, because repeat sequences ...
RNA world
... by maintaining diploidy or polyploidy. Genome redundancy would allow a damaged RNA segment to be replaced by an additional ...
Thelytoky
In automictic parthenogenesis, meiosis takes place and diploidy is restored by fusion of first division non-sister nuclei ( ...
Tetragonula carbonaria
Diploid males tend to have a cost to the colony because diploidy can result in a reduced proportion of workers able to perform ...
Evolutionary history of plants
It has been proposed as the basis for the emergence of the diploid phase of the life cycle as the dominant phase that diploidy ...
Genetic purging
... because the fitness decline caused by inbreeding can be determinant in the evolution of diploidy, sexual reproduction and other ...