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Response to the Werner (2016) comment on ‘Polyploid unisexual salamanders have higher tissue regeneration rates than diploid sexual relatives’
Author(s) -
Denton R. D.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of zoology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.915
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1469-7998
pISSN - 0952-8369
DOI - 10.1111/jzo.12397
Subject(s) - polyploid , biology , ploidy , evolutionary ecology , ecology , genetics , gene , host (biology)
In his comment on Saccucci et al. (2016), Yehudah Werner (2016) suggests that differences in regeneration rate between diploid and polyploid salamanders could simply be a result of differences in thermal optima for each group relative to the temperatures at which the experiments were conducted. While this is possible, I feel that this explanation is unlikely to account for the large difference observed in regeneration rates for the following three reasons.