Repeated phenotypic changes highlight molecular targets of convergent evolution

Genome Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Wagner, Maggie R ^a   Mitchell Olds, Thomas ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial selection; Brassica; Cis regulatory evolution; Convergence; Fruit development; Natural selection; Parallel evolution; Pleiotropy

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE SHP 1; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE SHP 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRASSICA; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FRUIT MORPHOLOGY; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME; HETEROZYGOTE; INDEHISCENT GENE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLEIOTROPY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; RPL GENE; SHATTERPROOF1 GENE; SHATTERPROOF2 GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; RICE;

BRASSICA;

BRASSICA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; MUTATION; ORYZA SATIVA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 80052868744     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2011-12-8-124     Document Type: Note

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