Morphological evolution in land plants: New designs with old genes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1588, 2012, Pages 508-518

  Pires, Nuno D ^a   Dolan, Liam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Development; Evolution; Flowers; Leaves; Regulatory genes; Root

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COLONIZATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLOWER; GLOBAL CHANGE; LEAF; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC CARBON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPOROPHYTE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 84855696745     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0252     Document Type: Review

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