A spruce gene map infers ancient plant genome reshuffling and subsequent slow evolution in the gymnosperm lineage leading to extant conifers

BMC Biology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Pavy, Nathalie ^a   Pelgas, Betty ^a,b   Laroche, Jérôme ^a   Rigault, Philippe ^a,c   Isabel, Nathalie ^a,b   Bousquet, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c Gydle Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angiosperm; duplication; evolution; gene families; genetic map; gymnosperm; phylogenomics; Picea; spruce; structural genomics

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PICEA; SPERMATOPHYTA;

METHYLTRANSFERASE; QUERCETIN O 3 METHYLTRANSFERASE; QUERCETIN O-3-METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SHUFFLING; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PINE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPRUCE;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA SHUFFLING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME, PLANT; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PICEA; PINUS;

EID: 84867833217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-10-84     Document Type: Article

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