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Ewout Crombez
@ewcro.bsky.social
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PhD student interested in the evolution of polyploidy in plants, using bioinformatics and duckweeds as a model system Van de Peer lab, University Ghent
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Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social · Jul 29
Sequencing the Human Genome 25 years ago had profound effects for the Life Sciences, and in many ways it was like the discovery of quantum mechanics for physics: both represented a fundamental shift in understanding the basic units of their respective domains — the cell and the atom.
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Ewout Crombez @ewcro.bsky.social · Jul 11
My first paper is finally out! 🥳
We explored how genes get lost in the process of rediploidization following polyploidization and found out that this loss primarly occurs through DNA deletion, rather than pseudogenization. #polyploidy @yvdp.bsky.social @zhen-li.bsky.social

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The subordinate role of pseudogenization to recombinative deletion following polyploidization in angiosperms
Nature Communications - Extensive gene loss is a hallmark of rediploidization following polyploidization, but its molecular basis remains unclear. Examining pseudogenization from ancient...
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fmortier.bsky.social @fmortier.bsky.social · Jan 16
Polyploid success isn’t just about growing fast—it’s about outcompeting progenitors! 🌱
We had neopolyploid duckweed and their progenitor invade each other, testing how stress & frequency-dependent growth shape WGD success... or failure. @yvdp.bsky.social #polyploid #duckweed
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Polyploid - diploid coexistence in the greater duckweed Spirodela polyrhiza
Polyploidy, resulting from whole-genome duplication (WGD), is widespread among plants and originates in sympatry with their lower-ploidy progenitors. New polyploids can only succeed when they overcome...
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