Zea mays subsp. mexicana 2 claims

subspecies · family Poaceae · green plant · NCBI Taxonomy ↗

Common name: Mexican teosinte — Also written in claims: Zea mays ssp. mexicana · mexicana — NCBI synonyms: Euchlaena mexicana · Zea mexicana

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Zea mays subsp. mexicana
Zea mays subsp. mexicana · picture of the speciesAkwugo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗
Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Introgression from mexicana into maize was widespread.

Taxon
maizeZea mayse1
Interactor
mexicanaZea mays subsp. mexicanae1other
Outcome
introgressione0
Direction
widespreade0

Verbatim

e0

“we detected widespread evidence for introgression in both directions of gene flow”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1085–1166
e1

“sympatric maize-mexicana populations”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 858–894

Title

The Genomic Signature of Crop-Wild Introgression in Maize

Matthew B. Hufford; Pesach Lubinksy; Tanja Pyhäjärvi; et al. PLoS Genetics 2013. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003477

Other claims from this paper (4)
Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Genomic DNA of several wild relatives gave a similar dispersed hybridization signal over all maize chromosomes.

Taxon
maizeZea mayst0
Interactor
Zea mays ssp. mexicanaZea mays subsp. mexicanae2other
Outcome
dispersed signal over all maize chromosomese2
Qualifier
Z. mays ssp. parviglumis, Z. diploperennis, Tripsacum dactyloides and Coix lacryma-jobie2

Verbatim

t0

“between maize and its wild relatives”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 22–58
e2

“genomic DNA from Zea mays ssp. mexicana, Z. mays ssp. parviglumis, Z. diploperennis, Tripsacum dactyloides and Coix lacryma-jobi all showed a similar hybridization pattern consisting of a dispersed signal over all maize chromosomes”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 459–690

Title

Genomic relationships between maize and its wild relatives

C Takahashi; J A Marshall; M D Bennett; et al. Genome 1999. doi:10.1139/g99-074

Other claims from this paper (4)