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Investigation of the bottleneck leading to the domestication of maize.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 Apr 1998
Eyre-Walker A, Gaut R L, Hilton H, Feldman D L, Gaut B S
Abstract excerpt
Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) is genetically diverse, yet it is also morphologically distinct from its wild relatives. These two observations are somewhat contradictory: the first observation is consistent with a large historical population size for maize, but the latter observation is consistent with strong, diversity-limiting selection during maize domestication. In this study, we sampled sequence diversity,...
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