Natural variation in teosinte at the domestication locus teosinte branched1 (tb1)
Laura Vann, Thomas Kono, Tanja Pyha ̈j ̈arvi, Matthew B Hufford, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
The paper investigates the prevalence and role of the Hopscotch transposable element at the tb1 locus in teosinte, finding it present in multiple populations but not strongly linked to tillering.
bioRxiv · Sep 11, 2014Evolutionary Biology