Publication Date:
2009-12-08
Description:
Maize domestication (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) resulted in a wide diversity of native landraces that represent an invaluable source of genetic information for exploring natural variation and genome evolution. We sequenced de novo the approximately 2-gigabase genome of the Mexican landrace Palomero Toluqueno (Palomero) and compared its features to those of the modern inbred line B73. We revealed differences concordant with its ancient origin and identified chromosomal regions of low nucleotide variability that contain domestication genes involved in heavy-metal detoxification. Our results indicate that environmental changes were important selective forces acting on maize domestication.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Vielle-Calzada, Jean-Philippe -- Martinez de la Vega, Octavio -- Hernandez-Guzman, Gustavo -- Ibarra-Laclette, Enrique -- Alvarez-Mejia, Cesar -- Vega-Arreguin, Julio C -- Jimenez-Moraila, Beatriz -- Fernandez-Cortes, Araceli -- Corona-Armenta, Guillermo -- Herrera-Estrella, Luis -- Herrera-Estrella, Alfredo -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2009 Nov 20;326(5956):1078. doi: 10.1126/science.1178437.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratorio Nacional de Genomica para la Biodiversidad, CINVESTAV Irapuato, Km 9.6 Libramiento Norte Carretera Irapuato-Leon, 36500 Irapuato, Mexico.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19965420" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Chromosome Mapping
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Chromosomes, Plant/genetics
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Crops, Agricultural/genetics/growth & development
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*Genes, Plant
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Genetic Variation
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*Genome, Plant
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Metals, Heavy/analysis/*metabolism/toxicity
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Molecular Sequence Data
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*Selection, Genetic
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
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Soil/analysis
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Zea mays/*genetics/growth & development/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
