The effect of relaxed functional constraints on the photosynthetic gene rbcL in photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic parasitic plants

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1243-1258

  Wolfe, Andrea D ^a,b   DePamphilis, Claude W ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroplast DNA evolution; Cryptic pseudogene; Molecular evolution; Plastid genome; RuBisCO; Scrophulariaceae

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT;

ALECTRA OROBANCHIOIDES; BOSCHNIAKIA; CONOPHOLIS; EPIFAGUS; HARVEYA CAPENSIS; HARVEYA PURPUREA; HYOBANCHE; LATHRAEA CLANDESTINA; OROBANCHE CORYMBOSA; OROBANCHE FASCICULATA; STRIGA GESNERIOIDES;

EID: 0031684776     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025853     Document Type: Article

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