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A genome-wide scan for evidence of selection in a maize population under long-term artificial selection for ear number.
Genetics - 1 Mar 2014
Beissinger Timothy M, Hirsch Candice N, Vaillancourt Brieanne, Deshpande Shweta, Barry Kerrie, Buell C Robin, Kaeppler Shawn M, Gianola Daniel, de Leon Natalia
Abstract excerpt
A genome-wide scan to detect evidence of selection was conducted in the Golden Glow maize long-term selection population. The population had been subjected to selection for increased number of ears per plant for 30 generations, with an empirically estimated effective population size ranging from 384 to 667 individuals and an increase of more than threefold in the number of ears per plant. Allele frequencies at...
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