The nature of selection during plant domestication

Michael D. Purugganan and Dorian Q. Fuller
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Michael D. Purugganan: 100 Washington Square East, New York University
Dorian Q. Fuller: Institute of Archaeology, University College London

Nature, 2009, vol. 457, issue 7231, 843-848

Abstract: Abstract Plant domestication is an outstanding example of plant–animal co-evolution and is a far richer model for studying evolution than is generally appreciated. There have been numerous studies to identify genes associated with domestication, and archaeological work has provided a clear understanding of the dynamics of human cultivation practices during the Neolithic period. Together, these have provided a better understanding of the selective pressures that accompany crop domestication, and they demonstrate that a synthesis from the twin vantage points of genetics and archaeology can expand our understanding of the nature of evolutionary selection that accompanies domestication.

Date: 2009
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