Adaptive Reduction of Male Gamete Number in a Selfing Species
T. Tsuchimatsu, H. Kakui, M. Yamazaki, C. Marona, H. Tsutsui, A. Hedhly, D. Meng, Y. Sato, T. Stadler, U. Grossniklaus, M. M. Kanaoka, M. Lenhard, M. Nordborg, K. K. Shimizu
The paper uses GWAS to show polygenic selection on pollen number in Arabidopsis thaliana, identifies a gene affecting pollen number, and validates its causal role using CRISPR-Cas9 mutants.
bioRxiv · Feb 28, 2018Evolutionary Biology