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Pre-domestication bottlenecks of the cultivated seaweed Gracilaria chilensis.
Molecular ecology - 1 Nov 2022
Huanel Oscar R, Quesada-Calderón Suany, Ríos Molina Cristian, Morales-González Sarai, Saenz-Agudelo Pablo, Nelson Wendy A, Arakaki Natalia, Mauger Stéphane, Faugeron Sylvain, Guillemin Marie-Laure
Abstract excerpt
Gracilaria chilensis is the main cultivated seaweed in Chile. The low genetic diversity observed in the Chilean populations has been associated with the over-exploitation of natural beds and/or the founder effect that occurred during post-glacial colonization from New Zealand. How these processes have affected its evolutionary trajectory before farming and incipient domestication is poorly understood. In this...
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