An evolutionary perspective on the regulation of carpel development.

@article{Scutt2006AnEP,
  title={An evolutionary perspective on the regulation of carpel development.},
  author={Charles P. Scutt and Marion Vinauger-Douard and Chloé Fourquin and C{\'e}dric Finet and Christian Dumas},
  journal={Journal of experimental botany},
  year={2006},
  volume={57 10},
  pages={
          2143-52
        }
}
The carpel, or female reproductive organ enclosing the ovules, is one of the major evolutionary innovations of the flowering plants. The control of carpel development has been intensively studied in the model eudicot species Arabidopsis thaliana. This review traces the evolutionary history of genes involved in carpel development by surveying orthologous genes in taxa whose lineages separated from that of A. thaliana at different levels of the phylogenetic tree of the seed plants. Some aspects… 
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