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Genomic Screening for Artificial Selection during Domestication and Improvement in Maize

BACKGROUND: Artificial selection results in phenotypic evolution. Maize (Zea mays L. ssp. mays) was domesticated from its wild progenitor teosinte (Zea mays subspecies parviglumis) through a single domestication event in southern Mexico between 6000 and 9000 years ago. This domestication event resul...

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Autores principales: Yamasaki, Masanori, Wright, Stephen I., McMullen, Michael D.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17704539
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcm173