Independent molecular basis of convergent highland adaptation in maize
Shohei Takuno, Peter Ralph, Kelly Swarts, Rob J Elshire, Jeffrey C Glaubitz, Edward S. Buckler, Matthew B Hufford, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
The paper examines convergent adaptation in maize to highland climates, finding limited nucleotide-level convergence but evidence of selection on standing variation and introgression from wild teosinte.
bioRxiv · Jun 9, 2015Evolutionary Biology