The earliest angiosperms: Evidence from mitochondrial, plastid and nuclear genomes

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6760, 1999, Pages 404-407

  Qiu, Yin Long ^a   Lee, Jungho ^a   Bernasconi Quadroni, Fabiana ^a   Soltis, Douglas E ^b   Soltis, Pamela S ^b   Zanis, Michael ^b   Zimmer, Elizabeth A ^c   Chen, Zhiduan ^a,d   Savolainen, Vincent ^e   Chase, Mark W ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; RNA 18S;

DNA; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANGIOSPERMS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMBORELLA; AUSTROBAILEYA; AUSTROBAILEYALES; CONIFEROPHYTA; GNETALES; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NYMPHAEALES; TRIMENIACEAE;

EID: 0033604548     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/46536     Document Type: Article

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