Archaeological data reveal slow rates of evolution during plant domestication

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 171-183

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

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaeobotany; Artificial selection; Darwins; Haldanes; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFICIAL ECOSYSTEM; DOMESTICATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; MORPHOLOGY; MUTUALISM; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PLANT;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; CANTALOUPE; CROP; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTORY; LEGUME; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POACEAE;

ARCHAEOLOGY; ASTERACEAE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; CUCUMIS MELO; FABACEAE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; POACEAE; SEEDS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78650957427     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01093.x     Document Type: Article

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