Article
Adaptive evolution in the Arabidopsis MADS-box gene family inferred from its complete resolved phylogeny.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 11 Nov 2003
Martinez-Castilla León Patricio, Alvarez-Buylla Elena R
Abstract excerpt
Gene duplication is a substrate of evolution. However, the relative importance of positive selection versus relaxation of constraints in the functional divergence of gene copies is still under debate. Plant MADS-box genes encode transcriptional regulators key in various aspects of development and have undergone extensive duplications to form a large family. We recovered 104 MADS sequences from the Arabidopsis...
Topics
- Arabidopsis
- Bayes Theorem
- Chromosomes
- DNA, Complementary
- Evolution, Molecular
- MADS Domain Proteins
- Multigene Family
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Transcription, Genetic
