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Darwin's "Abominable Mystery": the role of RNA interference in the evolution of flowering plants.
Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology - 1 Jan 2009
Cibrián-Jaramillo A, Martienssen R A
Abstract excerpt
Darwin was famously concerned that the sudden appearance and rapid diversification of flowering plants in the mid-Cretaceous could not have occurred by gradual change. Here, we review our attempts to resolve the relationships among the major seed plant groups, i.e., cycads, ginkgo, conifers, gnetophytes, and flowering plants, and to provide a pipeline in which these relationships can be used as a platform for...
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