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Demographic history of european populations of Arabidopsis thaliana.
PLoS genetics - 16 May 2008
François Olivier, Blum Michael G B, Jakobsson Mattias, Rosenberg Noah A
Abstract excerpt
The model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana is successful at colonizing land that has recently undergone human-mediated disturbance. To investigate the prehistoric spread of A. thaliana, we applied approximate Bayesian computation and explicit spatial modeling to 76 European accessions sequenced at 876 nuclear loci. We find evidence that a major migration wave occurred from east to west, affecting most of the...
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