Genome wide analyses reveal little evidence for adaptive evolution in many plant species.

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Published in Mol Biol Evol on March 18, 2010

Authors

Toni I Gossmann1, Bao-Hua Song, Aaron J Windsor, Thomas Mitchell-Olds, Christopher J Dixon, Maxim V Kapralov, Dmitry A Filatov, Adam Eyre-Walker

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for the Study of Evolution, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.

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