Tangled up in two: A burst of genome duplications at the end of the Cretaceous and the consequences for plant evolution

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1648, 2014, Pages

  Vanneste, Kevin ^a,b   Maere, Steven ^a,b   Van de Peer, Yves ^a,b,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Extinction event; Innovation; K Pg boundary; Plant evolution; Speciation; Whole genome duplication

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; ANGIOSPERM; CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; DIVERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION; GENOME; GENOMICS; PALEOGENE; POLYPLOIDY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

EID: 84902983212     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0353     Document Type: Review

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