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paleoploid

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Etymology

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From paleo- +‎ -ploid.

Adjective

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paleoploid (not comparable)

  1. (genetics) Having the ploidy that the organism had in the distant past
    • 2015 December 17, “Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT) Marker Platforms for Diversity Analysis and Linkage Mapping in a Complex Crop, the Octoploid Cultivated Strawberry ( Fragaria × ananassa )”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Furthermore, DArT has been applied successfully to species with large genomes such as barley [2 ] and with complex or/and polyploid genomes such as the decaploid sugarcane [3 ], hexaploid wheat and oat [4 ,5 ] or the paleoploid apple [6 ].