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Positive selection and expression divergence following gene duplication in the sunflower CYCLOIDEA gene family.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jul 2008
Chapman Mark A, Leebens-Mack James H, Burke John M
Abstract excerpt
Members of the CYCLOIDEA (CYC)/TEOSINTE-BRANCHED1 (TB1) group of transcription factors have been implicated in the evolution of zygomorphic (i.e., bilaterally symmetric) flowers in Antirrhinum and Lotus and the loss of branching phenotype during the domestication of maize. The composite inflorescences of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L. Asteraceae) contain both zygomorphic and actinomorphic (i.e., radially...
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