Claim · model-written summary
Introgression from mexicana into maize was widespread.
- Interactor
- mexicana
Zea mays subsp. mexicanae1other - Outcome
- introgressione0
- Direction
- widespreade0
Verbatim
e0“we detected widespread evidence for introgression in both directions of gene flow”
e1“sympatric maize-mexicana populations”
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)
- Observation Regions of the maize and mexicana genomes appeared resistant to introgression, particularly near cross-incompatibility and domestication loci.
- Observation Introgression from maize into mexicana was widespread.
- Observation Evidence suggested adaptive mexicana alleles were incorporated into maize during expansion to central Mexican highlands.
- Observation There was very little evidence of adaptive introgression from maize into mexicana.
