A time-calibrated road map of brassicaceae species radiation and evolutionary history

Plant Cell

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2770-2784

  Hohmann, Nora ^a   Wolf, Eva M ^a   Lysak, Martin A ^b   Koch, Marcus A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; BRASSICA; BRASSICACEAE; CHLOROPLAST GENOME; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENOME; POLYPLOIDY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; BRASSICA; BRASSICACEAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME, CHLOROPLAST; GENOME, PLANT; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLOIDY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84946752365     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.15.00482     Document Type: Article

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