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A weak effect of background selection on trinucleotide microsatellites in maize.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Thuillet Anne-Céline, Tenaillon Maud I, Anderson Lorinda K, Mitchell Sharon E, Kresovich Stephen, Stack Stephen M, Gaut Brandon, Doebley John
Abstract excerpt
Artificial selection during the domestication of maize is thought to have been predominantly positive and to have had little effect on the surrounding neutral diversity because linkage disequilibrium breaks down rapidly when physical distance increases. However, the degree to which indirect selection has shaped neutral diversity in the maize genome during domestication remains unclear. In this study, we...
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