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Asexual genome evolution in the apomictic Ranunculus auricomus complex: examining the effects of hybridization and mutation accumulation.
Molecular ecology - 1 Dec 2013
Pellino Marco, Hojsgaard Diego, Schmutzer Thomas, Scholz Uwe, Hörandl Elvira, Vogel Heiko, Sharbel Timothy F
Abstract excerpt
Asexual lineages are thought to be prone to extinction because of deleterious mutation accumulation (Muller's ratchet). Here, we analyse genomic effects of hybridity, polyploidy and allelic divergence in apomictic plants, and identify loci under divergent selection among sexual/apomictic lineages. RNAseq was used to sequence the flower-specific transcriptomes of five genotypes of the Ranunculus auricomus complex,...
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