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Tracking footprints of maize domestication and evidence for a massive selective sweep on chromosome 10.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 16 Jun 2009
Tian Feng, Stevens Natalie M, Buckler Edward S
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Maize domestication is one of the greatest feats of artificial selection and evolution, wherein a weedy plant in Central Mexico was converted through human-mediated selection into the most productive crop in the world. In fact, the changes were so astounding that it took much of the last century to identify modern maize's true ancestor. Through modern genetic studies, the molecular basis of this evolution is...
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