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Genetic signature of rice domestication shown by a variety of genes.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Apr 2009
Zhang Yuanli, Wang Jiao, Zhang Xiaohui, Chen Jian-Qun, Tian Dacheng, Yang Sihai
Abstract excerpt
Cultivated rice was domesticated from common wild rice. However, little is known about genetic adaptation under domestication. We investigated the nucleotide variation of both cultivated rice and its wild progenitors at 22 R-gene and 10 non-R-gene loci. A significant regression was observed between wild rice and rice cultivars in their polymorphic levels, particularly in their nonsynonymous substitutions (theta (...
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