Sequencing of the needle transcriptome from Norway spruce (Picea abies Karst L.) reveals lower substitution rates, but similar selective constraints in gymnosperms and angiosperms

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Jun ^a   Uebbing, Severin ^a   Gyllenstrand, Niclas ^b   Lagercrantz, Ulf ^a   Lascoux, Martin ^a,c   Källman, Thomas ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEEDLE TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONIFER NEEDLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GYMNOSPERM; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LOBLOLLY PINE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NORWAY SPRUCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PUTATIVE UNIQUE TRANSCRIPTS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SITKA SPRUCE; TAXUS WALLICHIANA VAR. MAIREI; WHITE SPRUCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PICEA; PLANT LEAVES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

CONIFEROPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; PICEA GLAUCA; PICEA SITCHENSIS; PINUS TAEDA; TAXUS WALLICHIANA VAR. MAIREI;

EID: 84868249180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-589     Document Type: Article

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