TY - JOUR
T1 - An evolutionary scenario for the origin of flowers
AU - Frohlich, Michael W.
N1 - Funding Information:
I would like to thank E. Meyerowitz, in whose laboratory this work began, J. Trager of Huntington Gardens, San Marino, California, and L. Song of the University of California, Fullerton, for Welwitschia materials, and two anonymous reviewers. This work is supported by a National Science Foundation grant.
Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2003/7/1
Y1 - 2003/7/1
N2 - The Mostly Male theory is the first to use evidence from gene phylogenies, genetics, modern plant morphology and fossils to explain the evolutionary origin of flowers, It proposes that flower organization derives more from the male structures of ancestral gymnosperms than from female structures. The theory arose from a hypothesis-based study. Such studies are the most likely to generate testable evolutionary scenarios, which should be the ultimate goal of evo-devo.
AB - The Mostly Male theory is the first to use evidence from gene phylogenies, genetics, modern plant morphology and fossils to explain the evolutionary origin of flowers, It proposes that flower organization derives more from the male structures of ancestral gymnosperms than from female structures. The theory arose from a hypothesis-based study. Such studies are the most likely to generate testable evolutionary scenarios, which should be the ultimate goal of evo-devo.
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U2 - 10.1038/nrg1114
DO - 10.1038/nrg1114
M3 - Review article
C2 - 12838347
AN - SCOPUS:0037803537
SN - 1471-0056
VL - 4
SP - 559
EP - 566
JO - Nature Reviews Genetics
JF - Nature Reviews Genetics
IS - 7
ER -