Rate variation in parasitic plants: Correlated and uncorrelated patterns among plastid genes of different function

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Young, Nelson D ^a   DePamphilis, Claude W ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OROBANCHACEAE;

CHLOROPLAST DNA; DNA; PLANT DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; OROBANCHACEAE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PLASTID; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CELL NUCLEUS; DNA; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PLANT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; OROBANCHACEAE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLASTIDS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 17444409700     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-5-16     Document Type: Article

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