Evidence and evolutionary analysis of ancient whole-genome duplication in barley predating the divergence from rice

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Well preserved genomic colinearity among agronomically important grass species such as rice, maize, Sorghum, wheat and barley provides access to whole-genome structure information even in species lacking a reference genome sequence....

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Main Authors: Grosse Ivo, Waugh Robbie, Graner Andreas, Thiel Thomas, Close Timothy J, Stein Nils
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-08-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/9/209