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Demographic expansion and genetic load of the halophyte model plant Eutrema salsugineum.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jul 2018
Wang Xiao-Juan, Hu Quan-Jun, Guo Xin-Yi, Wang Kun, Ru Da-Fu, German Dmitry A, Weretilnyk Elizabeth A, Abbott Richard J, Lascoux Martin, Liu Jian-Quan
Abstract excerpt
The halophyte model plant Eutrema salsugineum (Brassicaceae) disjunctly occurs in temperate to subarctic Asia and North America. This vast, yet extremely discontinuous distribution constitutes an ideal system to examine long-distance dispersal and the ensuing accumulation of deleterious mutations as expected in expanding populations of selfing plants. In this study, we resequenced individuals from 23 populations...
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