Recombination: An underappreciated factor in the evolution of plant genomes

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-84

  Gaut, Brandon S ^a   Wright, Stephen I ^b   Rizzon, Carène ^c   Dvorak, Jan ^d   Anderson, Lorinda K ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE MUTATION; GENE ORDER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PLANT EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE ORDER; GENOME, PLANT; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PLANTS; POLYPLOIDY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33845768012     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1970     Document Type: Review

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