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SUBMITTER: Lyu MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4472175 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lyu Ming-Ju Amy MJ Gowik Udo U Kelly Steve S Covshoff Sarah S Mallmann Julia J Westhoff Peter P Hibberd Julian M JM Stata Matt M Sage Rowan F RF Lu Haorong H Wei Xiaofeng X Wong Gane Ka-Shu GK Zhu Xin-Guang XG
BMC evolutionary biology 20150618
<h4>Background</h4>The genus Flaveria has been extensively used as a model to study the evolution of C4 photosynthesis as it contains C3 and C4 species as well as a number of species that exhibit intermediate types of photosynthesis. The current phylogenetic tree of the genus Flaveria contains 21 of the 23 known Flaveria species and has been previously constructed using a combination of morphological data and three non-coding DNA sequences (nuclear encoded ETS, ITS and chloroplast encoded trnL-F ...[more]