Duplication and independent selection of cell-wall invertase genes <it>GIF1 </it>and <it>OsCIN1 </it>during rice evolution and domestication

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Various evolutionary models have been proposed to interpret the fate of paralogous duplicates, which provides substrates on which evolution selection could act. In particular, domestication, as a special selection, has played importa...

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Main Authors: Ge Song, Li Qun, Wang Qin, Lin Lin, Zhang Hong, Zhang Lin, Xu Xun, Wang Ertao, Lu Bao-Rong, Wang Wen, He Zuhua
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-04-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/108