Darwin's "abominable mystery": The role of RNA interference in the evolution of flowering plants

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 74, Issue , 2009, Pages 267-273

  Cibrian Jaramillo A ^a,b,d   Martienssen, R A ^c,d  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^c Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOPECTIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; AUXIN; CAROTENOID; GIBBERELLIN; MICRORNA; RNA DEPENDENT RNA POLYMERASE 6; RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; TRANS ACTING SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE 6; PLANT RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ADIANTUM CAPILLUS VENERIS; ALLELE; AMBORELLA TRICHOPODA; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANGIOSPERM; ARABIDOPSIS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGENESIS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLADISTICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONIFER; CYCADOPHYTA; CYCAS RUMPHII; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FLOWER; FLOWERING; GERM LINE; GINKGO BILOBA; GNETOPHYTA; GNETUM GNEMON; GYMNOSPERM; JAPANESE CEDAR; LOBLOLLY PINE; MARCHANTIA POLYMORPHA; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; ORYZA SATIVAA; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT EVOLUTION; PLANT SEED; POPULUS TRICHOCARPAA; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SELAGINELLA MOELLENDORFFII; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VITIS VINIFERAA; WELWITSCHIA MIRABILIS; ZAMIA FISCHERI; ADIANTUM; AMBORELLA; ARTICLE; GENE ONTOLOGY; GINGKO; GNETUM; GRAPE; MARCHANTIA; MONOCOT; PHYLOGENOMICS; PHYSCOMITRELLA; PINE; POPULUS; RICE; SELAGINELLA; WELWITSCHIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PLANT; PLANT GENE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CONIFEROPHYTA; CYCADOPSIDA; DICOTYLEDONEAE; GNETOPHYTA; LILIOPSIDA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; SPERMATOPHYTA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOSPERMS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; GYMNOSPERMS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 77957732154     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2009.74.051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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