Tandem duplication of the FLC locus and the origin of a new gene in Arabidopsis related species and their functional implications in allopolyploids

New Phytologist

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 228-238

  Nah, Gyoungju ^a   Jeffrey Chen, Z ^a,b,c  

^a Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; FLC; Flowering; Gene duplication; Gene expression; Polyploidy

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN;

DICOTYLEDON; DIVERGENCE; FLOWERING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYPLOIDY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; POLYPLOIDY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTENY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, PLANT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYPLOIDY; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SYNTENY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS ARENOSA; ARABIDOPSIS LYRATA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 77950950646     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03164.x     Document Type: Article

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