Phylogenetic analyses unravel the evolutionary history of nac proteins in plants

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1833-1848

  Zhu, Tingting ^a,b   Nevo, Eviatar ^c   Sun, Dongfa ^d   Peng, Junhua ^a,e  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^d HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiosperm; NAC; Phylogenetic analysis; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANGIOSPERM; DICOTYLEDON; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENOME; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHYLOGENETICS; PROTEIN; VASCULAR PLANT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; BRYOPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; LYCOPODIOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84861670540     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01553.x     Document Type: Article

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