Nonreciprocal complementation of KNOX gene function in land plants

New Phytologist

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 591-604

  Frangedakis, Eftychios ^a   Saint Marcoux, Denis ^a   Moody, Laura A ^a   Rabbinowitsch, Ester ^a   Langdale, Jane A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Ceratopteris richardii; cross species complementation; KNOTTED homeobox genes; land plant evolution; phylogeny; Physcomitrella patens; Selaginella kraussiana

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTE; CHAROPHYTE; DIVERGENCE; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MOSS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN; SPOROPHYTE; VASCULAR PLANT;

ANTHOCEROTOPHYTA; ARABIDOPSIS; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CERATOPTERIS RICHARDII; CHARALES; EMBRYOPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; LYCOPODIOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS; SELAGINELLA KRAUSSIANA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

PLANT PROTEIN;

BAYES THEOREM; EMBRYOPHYTA; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BAYES THEOREM; EMBRYOPHYTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENES;

EID: 85005917055     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.14318     Document Type: Article

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