WRKY gene family evolution in Arabidopsis thaliana

Genetica

Volumn 139, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 973-983

  Wang, Qishan ^a   Wang, Minghui ^a   Zhang, Xiangzhe ^a   Hao, Boji ^a   Kaushik, S K ^b   Pan, Yuchun ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL POTATO RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Functional divergence; Relaxed selection; WRKY proteins

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 80053319211     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10709-011-9599-4     Document Type: Article

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