Novelties of the flowering plant pollen tube underlie diversification of a key life history stage

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 32, 2008, Pages 11259-11263

  Williams, Joseph H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evo devo; Heterochrony; Key innovation; Modularity; Origin of angiosperms

Indexed keywords

AMBORELLA TRICHOPODA; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; AUSTROBAILEYA SCANDENS; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION; GROWTH RATE; GYMNOSPERM; NONHUMAN; NUPHAR; NUPHAR POLYSEPALA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT SEED; POLLEN TUBE; POLLINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIODIVERSITY; FRUIT; GYMNOSPERMS; PHYLOGENY; POLLEN TUBE; REPRODUCTION;

AMBORELLA; AUSTROBAILEYA; GYMNOSPERMAE; LILIOPSIDA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NUPHAR;

EID: 49649094061     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0800036105     Document Type: Article

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