tetraploidization
English
editEtymology
editFrom tetraploid + -ization.
Noun
edittetraploidization (plural tetraploidizations)
- (genetics) The doubling of chromosomes to produce tetraploidy
- 2015 July 4, Heinz-Ulrich Reyer, Christian Arioli-Jakob, Martina Arioli, “Post-zygotic selection against parental genotypes during larval development maintains all-hybrid populations of the frog Pelophylax esculentus”, in BMC Evolutionary Biology[1], volume 15, :
- It has been shown, however, that triploid forms producing diploid gametes in one sex and haploid ones in the other sex can act as a stepping stone towards tetraploidization (triploid bridge; [ 93 – 95 ]).