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Plastid phylogenomic study of species within the genus Zea: rates and patterns of three classes of microstructural changes.
Current genetics - 1 May 2017
Orton Lauren M, Burke Sean V, Wysocki William P, Duvall Melvin R
Abstract excerpt
This project examines the relationships within the genus Zea using complete plastid genomes (plastomes). While Zea mays has been well studied, congeneric species have yet to be as thoroughly examined. For this study four complete plastomes and a fifth nearly complete plastome were sequenced in the five species (Zea diploperennis, Zea perennis, Zea luxurians, Zea nicaraguensis, and Zea mays subsp....
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