Surprisingly Low Limits of Selection in Plant Domestication

Current debate concerns the pace at which domesticated plants emerged from cultivated wild populations and how many genes were involved. Using an individual-based model, based on the assumptions of Haldane and Maynard Smith, respectively, we estimate that a surprisingly low number of 50–100 loci are...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Robin G. Allaby, James L. Kitchen, Dorian Q. Fuller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:Evolutionary Bioinformatics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4137/EBO.S33495