Pleiotropy in the wild: The dormancy gene dog1 exerts cascading control on life cycles

Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 883-893

  Chiang, George C K ^a   Barua, Deepak ^a,b   Dittmar, Emily ^a   Kramer, Elena M ^a   de Casas, Rafael Rubio ^a,c   Donohue, Kathleen ^a,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^c NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dormancy; Flowering time; Germination; Life history; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DOG1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ALLELE; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; DICOTYLEDON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; FLOWERING; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERMINATION; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SEED DORMANCY; WILD POPULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; FLOWER; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEED DORMANCY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; FLOWERS; GENOTYPE; SEED DORMANCY; SELECTION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84874740815     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01828.x     Document Type: Article

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