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Repeated migration, interbreeding and bottlenecking shaped the phylogeography of the selfing grass Brachypodium stacei.
Molecular ecology - 1 Oct 2024
Campos Miguel, Pérez-Collazos Ernesto, Díaz-Pérez Antonio, López-Alvarez Diana, Oumouloud Ali, Mur Luis A J, Vogel John P, Catalán Pilar
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Brachypodium stacei is the most ancestral lineage in the genus Brachypodium, a model system for grass functional genomics. B. stacei shows striking and sometimes contradictory biological and evolutionary features, including a high selfing rate yet extensive admixture, an ancient Miocene origin yet with recent evolutionary radiation, and adaptation to different dry climate conditions in its narrow distribution...
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