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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

An ancient origin of the naked grains of maize.

Regina A Fairbanks, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Evolutionary histories of functional mutations during the domestication and spread ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Regina A FairbanksDepartment of Evolution and Ecology and Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616.ORCID 0000-0003-4485-0376
Jeffrey Ross-IbarraDepartment of Evolution and Ecology and Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616.ORCID 0000-0003-1656-4954

Funding

National Science Foundation (NSF) 2307175U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) CA-D-PLS-2066-H 548
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adaptation to novel environments requires genetic variation, but whether adaptation typically acts upon preexisting genetic variation or must wait for new mutations remains a fundamental question in evolutionary biology. Selection during domestication has been long used as a model to understand evolutionary processes, providing information not only on the phenotypes selected but also, in many cases, an understanding of the causal loci. For each of the causal loci that have been identified in maize, the selected allele can be found segregating in natural populations, consistent with their origin as standing genetic variation. The sole exception to this pattern is the well-characterized domestication locus

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Evolution, MolecularZea maysAllelesDomesticationGenetic VariationGenome, PlantSelection, Geneticdomesticationmaizeselective sweepsstanding genetic variation

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PMID40526715
PMCPMC12207465

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