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Pattern of diversity in the genomic region near the maize domestication gene tb1.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 20 Jan 2004
Clark Richard M, Linton Eric, Messing Joachim, Doebley John F
Abstract excerpt
Domesticated maize and its wild ancestor (teosinte) differ strikingly in morphology and afford an opportunity to examine the connection between strong selection and diversity in a major crop species. The tb1 gene largely controls the increase in apical dominance in maize relative to teosinte, and a region of the tb1 locus 5' to the transcript sequence was a target of selection during maize domestication. To...
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