Evolutionary dynamics of the plastid inverted repeat: The effects of expansion, contraction, and loss on substitution rates

New Phytologist

Volumn 209, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1747-1756

  Zhu, Andan ^a   Guo, Wenhu ^a,b   Gupta, Sakshi ^a   Fan, Weishu ^a   Mower, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverted repeat (IR); Localized hypermutation; Plastid genome (plastome); Recombination mediated repair; Synonymous substitution rate; Vascular plants

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; DICOTYLEDON; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FERN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; GYMNOSPERM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PLASTID; RECOMBINATION;

EMBRYOPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PELARGONIUM; PLANTAGO; SILENE; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EMBRYOPHYTA; GENE DOSAGE; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; INTRON; INVERTED REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLASTID;

BASE SEQUENCE; EMBRYOPHYTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC LOCI; INTRONS; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS;

EID: 84947223307     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13743     Document Type: Article

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