Evolutionary BiologySciencePeer-reviewed
Convergent evolution of plant prickles is drivenby repeated gene co-option over deep time
James W. Satterlee, David E. Alonso, Pietro Gramazio…·Zachary B. Lippman
The paper investigates convergent evolution of plant prickles, finding that mutations in a cytokinin gene repeatedly cause prickle loss across species.
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