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More than one way to evolve a weed: parallel evolution of US weedy rice through independent genetic mechanisms.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jul 2015
Qi Xinshuai, Liu Yan, Vigueira Cynthia C, Young Nelson D, Caicedo Ana L, Jia Yulin, Gealy David R, Olsen Kenneth M
Abstract excerpt
Many different crop species were selected for a common suite of 'domestication traits', which facilitates their use for studies of parallel evolution. Within domesticated rice (Oryza sativa), there has also been independent evolution of weedy strains from different cultivated varieties. This makes it possible to examine the genetic basis of parallel weed evolution and the extent to which this process occurs...
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