Article
Molecular population genetics of redundant floral-regulatory genes in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jan 2005
Moore Richard C, Grant Sarah R, Purugganan Michael D
Abstract excerpt
Functional redundancy between duplicated genes is predicted to be transitory, as one gene either loses its function or gains a new function, or both genes accrue degenerative, yet complimentary mutations. Yet there are many examples where functional redundancy has been maintained between gene duplicates. To determine whether selection is acting on functionally redundant gene duplicates, we performed molecular...
Topics
- Arabidopsis
- Arabidopsis Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Evolution, Molecular
- Flowers
- Gene Duplication
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Genes, Regulator
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Plant
- MADS Domain Proteins
