Tracing floral adaptations from ecology to molecules

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 206-215

  Clegg, Michael T ^a   Durbin, Mary L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FLOWER; GENETICS; IPOMOEA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; REVIEW; TAXONOMY;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FLAVONOIDS; FLOWERS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, PLANT; IPOMOEA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

IPOMOEA;

EID: 0037373635     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1023     Document Type: Review

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