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Megabase-scale inversion polymorphism in the wild ancestor of maize.
Genetics - 1 Jul 2012
Fang Zhou, Pyhäjärvi Tanja, Weber Allison L, Dawe R Kelly, Glaubitz Jeffrey C, González José de Jesus Sánchez, Ross-Ibarra Claudia, Doebley John, Morrell Peter L, Ross-Ibarra Jeffrey
Abstract excerpt
Chromosomal inversions are thought to play a special role in local adaptation, through dramatic suppression of recombination, which favors the maintenance of locally adapted alleles. However, relatively few inversions have been characterized in population genomic data. On the basis of single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping across a large panel of Zea mays, we have identified an ∼50-Mb region on the short...
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