Similar genetic mechanisms underlie the parallel evolution of floral phenotypes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Wenheng ^a   Kramer, Elena M ^a   Davis, Charles C ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYC2A GENE; CYC2B GENE; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; FLOWER MORPHOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRAIT; MALPIGHIACEAE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEREOTYPY; SYMBIOSIS; EVOLUTION; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

APOIDEA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MALPIGHIACEAE;

VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MALPIGHIACEAE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84860447364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036033     Document Type: Article

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