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SUBMITTER: Diez CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4119021 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Díez Concepción M CM Gaut Brandon S BS Meca Esteban E Scheinvar Enrique E Montes-Hernandez Salvador S Eguiarte Luis E LE Tenaillon Maud I MI
The New phytologist 20130402 1
It is still an open question as to whether genome size (GS) variation is shaped by natural selection. One approach to address this question is a population-level survey that assesses both the variation in GS and the relationship of GS to ecological variants. We assessed GS in Zea mays, a species that includes the cultivated crop, maize, and its closest wild relatives, the teosintes. We measured GS in five plants of each of 22 maize landraces and 21 teosinte populations from Mexico sampled from p ...[more]