Challenging the paradigms of leaf evolution: Class III HD-Zips in ferns and lycophytes

New Phytologist

Volumn 212, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 745-758

  Vasco, Alejandra ^a,b   Smalls, Tynisha L ^a   Graham, Sean W ^c   Cooper, Endymion D ^d   Wong, Gane Ka Shu ^e,f   Stevenson, Dennis W ^a   Moran, Robbin C ^a   Ambrose, Barbara A ^a  

^a NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^f BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

Author keywords

Class III HD Zip; enation theory; leaf evolution and development; megaphyll; microphyll; sterilization theory; telome theory

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FERN; GENE EXPRESSION; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; VASCULAR PLANT;

EUPHYLLOPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; LYCOPODIOPHYTA; SPERMATOPHYTA;

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PLANT PROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FERN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FERNS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84978153901     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.14075     Document Type: Article

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