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Natural selection in gene-dense regions shapes the genomic pattern of polymorphism in wild and domesticated rice.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Feb 2012
Flowers Jonathan M, Molina Jeanmaire, Rubinstein Samara, Huang Pu, Schaal Barbara A, Purugganan Michael D
Abstract excerpt
Levels of nucleotide variability are frequently positively correlated with recombination rate and negatively associated with gene density due to the effects of selection on linked variation. These relationships are determined by properties that frequently differ among species, including the mating system, and aspects of genome organization such as how genes are distributed along chromosomes. In rice, genes are...
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