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Expressions of ECE-CYC
2
Clade Genes Relating to
Abortion of Both Dorsal
and Ventral Stamens in
Chun-Feng Song, Qi-Bing Lin, Rong-Hua Liang and
Yin-Zheng Wang
abstRact
Background
ECE-CYC2 clade genes known in patterning floral dorsoventral asymme-
try (zygomorphy) in Antirrhinum majus are conserved in the dorsal identity
function including arresting the dorsal stamen. However, it remains uncer-
tain whether the same mechanism underlies abortion of the ventral stamens,
an important morphological trait related to evolution and diversification of
