Positive darwinian selection at the imprinted MEDEA locus in plants

Nature

Volumn 448, Issue 7151, 2007, Pages 349-352

  Spillane, Charles ^a,b   Schmid, Karl J ^c,e   Laoueillé Duprat, Sylvia ^b   Pien, Stéphane ^a   Escobar Restrepo, Juan Miguel ^a   Baroux, Célia ^a   Gagliardini, Valeria ^a   Page, Damian R ^a   Wolfe, Kenneth H ^d   Grossniklaus, Ueli ^a  

^a Botanical Institute of the University of Basel   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; AUTOGAMY; COEVOLUTION; DICOTYLEDON; EMBRYO; GENOME; MAMMAL; NATURAL SELECTION; NUTRIENT; PARENTAGE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BRASSICACEAE; CELL LINEAGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CROSS LINKING; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT GENETICS; PLESIOMORPHY; PRECURSOR; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEED DEVELOPMENT;

ARABIDOPSIS LYRATA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICACEAE; MAMMALIA; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 34447521864     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05984     Document Type: Article

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