Evolution of crop species: Genetics of domestication and diversification

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 840-852

  Meyer, Rachel S ^a   Purugganan, Michael D ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROP; DOMESTICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MAIZE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PLANT GENOME; RICE;

ANIMALS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENOME, PLANT; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; ORYZA SATIVA; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SELECTION, GENETIC; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84887970699     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3605     Document Type: Review

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