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Transgenic study of parallelism in plant morphological evolution.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 27 Apr 2004
Yoon Ho-Sung, Baum David A
Abstract excerpt
Developmental constraint is indicated when one finds that similar genetic mechanisms are responsible for independent origins of the same derived phenotype. We studied three independent origins of rosette flowering within the mustard family and attempted to evaluate the extent to which the same mechanisms were involved in each transition from the ancestral phenotype, inflorescence flowering. We used transformation...
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