domestication

Gross et al. 2010 and Thurber et al. 2010

Molecular evolution of shattering loci in U.S. weedy rice

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Seeing red: the origin of grain pigmentation in US weedy rice Read More...

Domestication showcase showdown


FOUR, yes count’em FOUR articles on domestication competing for the title prize. Dog vs. silkworm vs. maize vs. chicken. Now accepting wagers... Read More...

Rubin et al. 2010 AND Pool et al. 2010

Whole-genome resequencing reveals loci under selection during chicken domestication

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Population genetic inference from genomic sequence variation
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Kim & Gulisija 2009

Signatures of Recent Directional Selection Under Different Models of Population Expansion During Colonization of New Selective Environments Read More...

Piperno et al 2009 & Ranere et al. 2009

Starch grain and phytolith evidence for early ninth millennium B.P. maize from the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico

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The cultural and chronological context of early Holocene maize and squash domestication in the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico Read More...

Kovach et al. 2009

The origin and evolution of fragrance in rice (Oryza sativa L.) Read More...

Zhang et al. 2009

Selection on grain shattering genes and rates of rice domestication Read More...

Gore et al. 2009

A first generation haplotype map of maize Read More...

Hyten et al. 2006

Impacts of genetic bottlenecks on soybean genome diversity
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Wang et al. 2009

SNP deserts of Asian cultivated rice: genomic regions under domestication Read More...

Paterson et al. 2009

The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses Read More...

Briggs et al. 2007

Linkage Mapping of Domestication Loci in a Large Maize–Teosinte Backcross Resource
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Saishho and Purugganan 2007

Molecular Phylogeography of Domesticated Barley Traces Expansion of Agriculture in the Old World Read More...

Le Thierry d'Ennequin et al 1999

Plant domestication: a model for studying the evolution of linkage Read More...