GeneticsMolecular Biology and EvolutionPeer-reviewed
The origin of floral quartet formation - Ancient exon duplications shaped the evolution of MIKC-type MADS-domain transcription factor interactions
Florian Rümpler, Chiara Tessari, Lydia Gramzow…·Günter Theißen
The paper investigates the evolutionary origin of floral quartet complexes in plants, showing that MIKCC-type genes evolved tetramerization interfaces through exon duplication, enabling distinct regulatory networks.
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