Transcriptomes of plant gametophytes have a higher proportion of rapidly evolving and young genes than sporophytes
Toni I Gossmann, Dounia Saleh, Marc W Schmid, Michael A Spence, Karl J Schmid
The paper compares gene expression patterns between gametophytes and sporophytes in three plant species, finding that gametophytes have a higher proportion of rapidly evolving and young genes.
Molecular Biology and Evolution · Mar 8, 2016Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology