Genetic enablers underlying the clustered evolutionary origins of C4 photosynthesis in angiosperms

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 846-858

  Christin, Pascal Antoine ^a,b   Arakaki, Monica ^b,c   Osborne, Colin P ^a   Edwards, Erika J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS   (Peru)

Author keywords

C4 photosynthesis; co option; crassulacean acid metabolism; evolvability; phylogenetics; transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE KINASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DICARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING); PHOSPHATE TRANSPORTER; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE (GTP); PYRUVATE PHOSPHATE DIKINASE; SODIUM PROTON EXCHANGE PROTEIN;

AMARANTHUS; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BOERHAVIA; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CARYOPHYLLALES; CLADISTICS; CRASSULACEAN ACID METABOLISM PLANT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUDICOT; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MESEMBRYANTHEMUM; MONOCOT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT EVOLUTION; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; POACEAE; PORTULACA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

CARYOPHYLLALES; CRASSULACEAE; LILIOPSIDA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; POACEAE;

ANGIOSPERMS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84926660709     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu410     Document Type: Article

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