Open AccessTranscription Factors and Darwin's “Abominable Mystery”: Positive Autoregulation in Floral Zygomorphy
Author(s) -
Jennifer Mach
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.112.240513
Subject(s) - biology , darwin (adl) , evolutionary biology , cretaceous , charles darwin , diversity (politics) , botany , paleontology , darwinism , anthropology , systems engineering , sociology , engineering
The Cretaceous was a great time for angiosperms; so great that Darwin himself identified the dramatic increase in the number of angiosperm species as an “abominable mystery” (reviewed in [Friedman, 2009][1]). Trying to explain the astonishing explosion of angiosperm diversity gave Darwin such
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