Functional evolution of an anthocyanin pathway enzyme during a flower color transition

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 602-612

  Smith, Stacey D ^a,b   Wang, Shunqi ^a,c   Rausher, Mark D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^c NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ancestral state reconstruction; anthocyanins; dihydroflavonol 4 reductase; flower color; Iochroma

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CODON; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FLOWER COLOR; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PLESIOMORPHY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; TAXON; VITIS;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHOCYANINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOWERS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOLANACEAE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84873571934     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss255     Document Type: Article

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