The nature of selection during plant domestication

Nature

Volumn 457, Issue 7231, 2009, Pages 843-848

  Purugganan, Michael D ^a   Fuller, Dorian Q ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; DOMESTICATION; EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NUMERICAL METHOD; PLANT;

AGROECOSYSTEM; COEVOLUTION; DOMESTICATION; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GRAIN YIELD; GROWTH PERIOD; NATURAL SELECTION; NEOLITHIC; NONHUMAN; PLANT EVOLUTION; PLANT TAXONOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; SEED SIZE; SEED YIELD;

CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; CULTURE; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENOME, PLANT; HUMANS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA;

EID: 60149084807     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07895     Document Type: Review

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