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Polyploidy phenomenon found in insects

05.01.2020

The evolution of living organisms, despite popular belief, nevertheless took place in completely different ways - not only in different species of the same kingdom, but also in different species in principle. Evolutionary biologists from the University of Arizona have presented their new study on the found evidence of polyploidy in insects - which is quite unusual and revolutionary discovery, which will finally understand the differences in the evolutionary process of animals and plants.

Evolutionary biology is a separate area of biology, the scope of which primarily covers the study of the mechanisms of genetic development of various living organisms. Even during the last century, several scientists have proven the process of polyploidy - the process of genomic reproduction - in plants, but studies of that time did not allow to finally link it to the animal kingdom. Now, thanks to a special bioinformatics research system developed by a team from the University of Arizona, the process of polyploidy has been discovered in insects, which represent the richest department of the animal world in terms of evolutionary biology.

The detection of traces of polyploidy was made possible by a new set of methods and techniques for studying genomic duplication - thus, the team was able to detect these traces in some species of insects, which clearly indicates a similar process in other animals.

However, scientists are not in a hurry to come to such conclusions yet, because it is necessary to double-check the data obtained from the bioinformatic system in the context of studying other types of insects. However, if in the future this theory is finally confirmed, then completely new horizons of study and discoveries will open before evolutionary biology, and some of the results of the study will certainly find their embodiment in new systems and methods of research.

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