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Recent insights into the evolution of genetic diversity of maize.
Genome dynamics - 1 Jan 2008
Rafalski A, Tingey S
Abstract excerpt
Evolutionary changes that occur within the maize genome can be divided into two classes: In the protein-coding regions, mutations that survive selective pressure primarily consist of single nucleotide polymorphisms which evolve at a relatively slow rate (10-9 mutations/ bp/generation), and functionally detrimental insertions are strongly selected against. In intergenic regions rapidly evolving (10-4 10-8...
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