This work revisits a publication by Bean Our comparative analyses, with structural modelling, implicate numerous residues additional to those identified by Bean Multiple In summary, we were unable to replicate the
The evolution of To address this, we functionally characterised 23 distinct We find that low In the context of an updated organismal phylogeny and newly inferred pigment reconstructions, we argue that repeated convergent acquisition of elevated
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10456853
- Publisher / Repository:
- Wiley-Blackwell
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- Journal Name:
- New Phytologist
- Volume:
- 227
- Issue:
- 3
- ISSN:
- 0028-646X
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- p. 914-929
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