supported by the Three Gorges Environmental Funds of China Three Gorges Corporation(Grant No.XN270)。
The order Acipenseriformes,which includes sturgeons and paddlefishes,represents“living fossils”with complex genomes that are good models for understanding whole-genome duplication(WGD)and ploidy evolution in fishes....
the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China(Grant No.2016YFD0101001);the China National Science Foundation(Grant Nos.31371282 to XW,31510333 to JW,and 31661143009 to XW);the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province(Grant No.C2015209069 to JW);Tangshan Key Laboratory Project to XW。
Lycophytes and seed plants constitute the typical vascular plants.Lycophytes have been thought to have no paleo-polyploidization although the event is known to be critical for the fast expansion of seed plants.Here,ge...