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Organellar Genomes from a ∼5,000-Year-Old Archaeological Maize Sample Are Closely Related to NB Genotype.
Genome biology and evolution - 1 Apr 2017
Pérez-Zamorano Bernardo, Vallebueno-Estrada Miguel, Martínez González Javier, García Cook Angel, Montiel Rafael, Vielle-Calzada Jean-Philippe, Delaye Luis
Abstract excerpt
The story of how preColumbian civilizations developed goes hand-in-hand with the process of plant domestication by Mesoamerican inhabitants. Here, we present the almost complete sequence of a mitochondrial genome and a partial chloroplast genome from an archaeological maize sample collected at the Valley of Tehuacán, México. Accelerator mass spectrometry dated the maize sample to be 5,040-5,300 years before...
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