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SUBMITTER: Zhang W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3338646 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Wenheng W Kramer Elena M EM Davis Charles C CC
PloS one 20120427 4
The repeated origin of similar phenotypes is invaluable for studying the underlying genetics of adaptive traits; molecular evidence, however, is lacking for most examples of such similarity. The floral morphology of neotropical Malpighiaceae is distinctive and highly conserved, especially with regard to symmetry, and is thought to result from specialization on oil-bee pollinators. We recently demonstrated that CYCLOIDEA2-like genes (CYC2A and CYC2B) are associated with the development of the ste ...[more]