The population genetics of convergent adaptation in maize and teosinte is not locally restricted.

Abstract excerpt

What is the genetic architecture of local adaptation and what is the geographic scale over which it operates? We investigated patterns of local and convergent adaptation in five sympatric population pairs of traditionally cultivated maize and its wild relative teosinte (Zea mays subsp. parviglumis). We found that signatures of local adaptation based on the inference of adaptive fixations and selective sweeps are...

Topics

• Genetics, Population
• Zea mays
• Adaptation, Physiological
• Gene Flow
• Genetic Variation
• Inbreeding