From museums to genomics: Old herbarium specimens shed light on a C3 to C4 transition

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 65, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 6711-6721

  Besnard, Guillaume ^a   Christin, Pascal Antoine ^b   Malé, Pierre Jean G ^a,c   Lhuillier, Emeline ^d,e   Lauzeral, Christine ^a   Coissac, Eric ^f   Vorontsova, Maria S ^g  

^a Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

^e Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^g ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aristidoideae; herbarium; Madagascar; NGS; plastid genome; Poaceae; ribosomal DNA; Sartidia; single copy genes; Stipagrostis

Indexed keywords

ARISTIDOIDEAE; POACEAE; STIPAGROSTIS;

CARBON;

AFRICA; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTIG MAPPING; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GEOGRAPHY; INFORMATION CENTER; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLASTID; POACEAE; RIBOSOME; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AFRICA; BASE COMPOSITION; CARBON; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTIG MAPPING; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, PLANT; GENOMICS; GEOGRAPHY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUSEUMS; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; POACEAE; RIBOSOMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84922429099     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru395     Document Type: Article

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