Patterns of variation in the evolution of carotenoid biosynthetic pathway enzymes of higher plants.

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Cellular metabolic networks depend on the products of many loci for proper functioning. These interrelationships between loci at the phenotypic level raise the question of whether they evolve independently. Previous research has demonstrated that in the anthocyanin pathway, which produces important secondary metabolites in plants, the genes encoding downstream enzymes show an increased rate of change at...

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