BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Evolution of plant senescence

Howard Thomas1*, Lin Huang2, Mike Young1 and Helen Ougham2

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1 IBERS, Aberystwyth University, Ceredigion, SY23 3DA, UK

2 IBERS, Aberystwyth University, Plas Gogerddan, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3EB, UK

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:163 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-163

Published: 14 July 2009

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Outfiles from Consensus tree program, version 3.67. Bootstrapping support values for protein consensus trees generated through the use of SEQBOOT, NEIGHBOR and CONSENSE and PUZZLEBOOT programs.

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Outfiles from PROML. Amino acid sequence Maximum Likelihood method, version 3.67. Tree branch lengths with error estimates, generated using PROML with Gamma distribution.

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Synopsis of significant events in the evolution of plant senescence in relation to the geological timeline. Innovations in the geological time-line relevant to the evolution of a senescence program integrated into plant development and adaptation.

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Log Likelihood (Ln) values corresponding to Hidden Markov Model, Gamma Distribution Model and Constant Rate Variation options in PHYLIP for phylogenetic analysis of senescence-related protein sequences. Results of analysing all amino acid sequence data with the PROML program run with three different settings for the R (rate variation among sites) parameter.

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