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African genomes illuminate the early history and transition to selfing in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 16 May 2017
Durvasula Arun, Fulgione Andrea, Gutaker Rafal M, Alacakaptan Selen Irez, Flood Pádraic J, Neto Célia, Tsuchimatsu Takashi, Burbano Hernán A, Picó F Xavier, Alonso-Blanco Carlos, Hancock Angela M
Abstract excerpt
Over the past 20 y, many studies have examined the history of the plant ecological and molecular model, Arabidopsis thaliana, in Europe and North America. Although these studies informed us about the recent history of the species, the early history has remained elusive. In a large-scale genomic analysis of African A. thaliana, we sequenced the genomes of 78 modern and herbarium samples from Africa and analyzed...
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