Article
Genome-wide patterns of nucleotide polymorphism in domesticated rice.
PLoS genetics - 1 Sept 2007
Caicedo Ana L, Williamson Scott H, Hernandez Ryan D, Boyko Adam, Fledel-Alon Adi, York Thomas L, Polato Nicholas R, Olsen Kenneth M, Nielsen Rasmus, McCouch Susan R, Bustamante Carlos D, Purugganan Michael D
Abstract excerpt
Domesticated Asian rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the oldest domesticated crop species in the world, having fed more people than any other plant in human history. We report the patterns of DNA sequence variation in rice and its wild ancestor, O. rufipogon, across 111 randomly chosen gene fragments, and use these to infer the evolutionary dynamics that led to the origins of rice. There is a genome-wide excess of...
Topics
- Alleles
- Base Pairing
- Base Sequence
- Computer Simulation
- Crops, Agricultural
- Evolution, Molecular
- Founder Effect
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Genome, Plant
- Likelihood Functions
- Models, Genetic