Thousands of species are polyploid. However, the long-term establishment of organisms that have undergone ancient whole genome duplications (WGDs) has been…

THE APOSTASIA GENOME AND THE EVOLUTION OF ORCHIDS

Constituting approximately 10% of flowering plant species, orchids (Orchidaceae) display…

Early 2021, seven Ghent University research groups received funding…

At present, knowledge about the (eco-)evolutionary effects of polyploidy is largely based on either the comparison of polyploids with the contemporary descendants of…

Seagrasses colonized the sea on at least three independent occasions to form the basis of one of the most productive and widespread coastal ecosystems on the…