The nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio: coupling DNA content to cell size, cell cycle, and biosynthetic capacity

S Balachandra, S Sarkar… - Annual review of genetics, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
Though cell size varies between different cells and across species, the nuclear-to-
cytoplasmic (N/C) ratio is largely maintained across species and within cell types. A cell …

When bigger is better: the role of polyploidy in organogenesis

TL Orr-Weaver - Trends in Genetics, 2015‏ - cell.com
Defining how organ size is regulated, a process controlled not only by the number of cells
but also by the size of the cells, is a frontier in developmental biology. Large cells are …

Genetic instability from a single S phase after whole-genome duplication

S Gemble, R Wardenaar, K Keuper, N Srivastava… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Diploid and stable karyotypes are associated with health and fitness in animals. By contrast,
whole-genome duplications—doublings of the entire complement of chromosomes—are …

[HTML][HTML] Myocardial polyploidization creates a barrier to heart regeneration in zebrafish

JM González-Rosa, M Sharpe, D Field, MH Soonpaa… - Developmental cell, 2018‏ - cell.com
Correlative evidence suggests that polyploidization of heart muscle, which occurs naturally
in post-natal mammals, creates a barrier to heart regeneration. Here, we move beyond a …

Endoreplication and polyploidy: insights into development and disease

DT Fox, RJ Duronio - Development, 2013‏ - journals.biologists.com
Polyploid cells have genomes that contain multiples of the typical diploid chromosome
number and are found in many different organisms. Studies in a variety of animal and plant …

Polyploidy in tissue homeostasis and regeneration

JI Øvrebø, BA Edgar - Development, 2018‏ - journals.biologists.com
Polyploid cells, which contain multiple copies of the typically diploid genome, are
widespread in plants and animals. Polyploidization can be developmentally programmed or …

Dynamic blastomere behaviour reflects human embryo ploidy by the four-cell stage

SL Chavez, KE Loewke, J Han, F Moussavi… - Nature …, 2012‏ - nature.com
Previous studies have demonstrated that aneuploidy in human embryos is surprisingly
frequent with 50–80% of cleavage-stage human embryos carrying an abnormal …

The expanding implications of polyploidy

KP Schoenfelder, DT Fox - The Journal of cell biology, 2015‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Polyploid cells, which contain more than two genome copies, occur throughout nature.
Beyond well-established roles in increasing cell size/metabolic output, polyploidy can also …

Drosophila melanogaster: a model and a tool to investigate malignancy and identify new therapeutics

C Gonzalez - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2013‏ - nature.com
For decades, lower-model organisms such as Drosophila melanogaster have often provided
the first glimpse into the mechanism of action of human cancer-related proteins, thus making …

Endoreplication: the good, the bad, and the ugly

Z Shu, S Row, WM Deng - Trends in cell biology, 2018‏ - cell.com
To battle adverse internal and external conditions and maintain homeostasis, diploid
organisms employ various cellular processes, such as proliferation and apoptosis. In some …