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Evidence of neutral transcriptome evolution in plants.
The New phytologist - 1 Jan 2008
Broadley M R, White P J, Hammond J P, Graham N S, Bowen H C, Emmerson Z F, Fray R G, Iannetta P P M, McNicol J W, May S T
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* The transcriptome of an organism is its set of gene transcripts (mRNAs) at a defined spatial and temporal locus. Because gene expression is affected markedly by environmental and developmental perturbations, it is widely assumed that transcriptome divergence among taxa represents adaptive phenotypic selection. This assumption has been challenged by neutral theories which propose that stochastic processes drive...
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