The limits of selection during maize domestication

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6724, 1999, Pages 236-239

  Wang, Rong Lin ^a   Stec, Adrian ^a   Hey, Jody ^b   Lukens, Lewis ^a   Doebley, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CROP; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MAIZE; MEXICO; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGRICULTURE; ALLELES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0033580401     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/18435     Document Type: Article

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