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SUBMITTER: Eyre-Walker A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC22508 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Eyre-Walker A A Gaut R L RL Hilton H H Feldman D L DL Gaut B S BS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19980401 8
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, coupled with simulations of the coalescent process, to study the dynamics of a population ...[more]