The evolutionary implications of knox-I gene duplications in conifers: Correlated evidence from phylogeny, gene mapping, and analysis of functional divergence

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2232-2245

  Guillet Claude, Carine ^a   Isabel, Nathalie ^a,b   Pelgas, Betty ^a   Bousquet, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conifer knox I genes; Evolutionary rates; Functional divergence; Gene duplication; Genome mapping; Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONIFER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE ASSIGNMENT; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; KNOX 1 GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT SEED; SPRUCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONIFEROPHYTA; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CONIFEROPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; PICEA; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 8444239707     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh235     Document Type: Article

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