Early Allelic Selection in Maize as Revealed by Ancient DNA

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5648, 2003, Pages 1206-1208

  Jaenicke Després, Viviane ^a   Buckler, Ed S ^b   Smith, Bruce D ^c   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^d   Cooper, Alan ^d   Doebley, John ^e   Pääbo, Svante ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CROPS; GENES; MORPHOLOGY; PROTEINS;

BIOCHEMICAL TRAITS;

DNA;

DNA; STARCH;

ALLELE; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CORN; CROP; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMESTICATION; MAIZE; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; UNITED STATES;

ALLELES; ARCHAEOLOGY; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DNA, PLANT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, PLANT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEXICO; PLANT PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS); ZEA MAYS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0242497658     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1089056     Document Type: Article

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