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ReviewChromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology2021

Communal living: the role of polyploidy and syncytia in tissue biology.

Nora G Peterson, Donald T Fox

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Review in Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Replication stress-induced nuclear hypertrophy alters chromatin topology and impacts cancer cell fitness.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  10. Cell-cell fusion: To lose one life and begin another.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025
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  11. Identification and characterization of planarian multinucleated cells inFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025
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  19. Whole-genome doubling in tissues and tumors.Trends in genetics : TIG · 2023
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  20. Normal and Sjogren's syndrome models of the murine lacrimal gland studied at single-cell resolution.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Nora G PetersonDepartment of Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Donald T FoxDepartment of Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA. don.fox@duke.edu.

Funding

ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF CELLULAR STRUCTUREST32GM007184 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI JINKS-ROBERTSON, SUE · 1985 to 2019
$18.2M
Polyploidy after tissue injury: a Drosophila modelR01GM118447 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI FOX, DONALD T. · 2016 to 2025
$3.1M
Polyploidy in Cardiac Development and Tissue Repair in DrosophilaF31HL140811 · NHLBI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI PETERSON, NORA GRACE · 2018 to 2020
$118k
NHLBI NIH HHS F31 HL140811NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM118447NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007184
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multicellular organisms are composed of tissues with diverse cell sizes. Whether a tissue primarily consists of numerous, small cells as opposed to fewer, large cells can impact tissue development and function. The addition of nuclear genome copies within a common cytoplasm is a recurring strategy to manipulate cellular size within a tissue. Cells with more than two genomes can exist transiently, such as in developing germlines or embryos, or can be part of mature somatic tissues. Such nuclear collectives span multiple levels of organization, from mononuclear or binuclear polyploid cells to highly multinucleate structures known as syncytia. Here, we review the diversity of polyploid and syncytial tissues found throughout nature. We summarize current literature concerning tissue construction through syncytia and/or polyploidy and speculate why one or both strategies are advantageous.

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Giant CellsPolyploidyBiologyCell NucleusHumansCystEndocycleEndomitosisFusionMultinucleatePolyploidySyncytia

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PMID34075512
PMCPMC8169410

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