Exciting talk by @ErinCalfee on admixture and selection in maize! Sees a relationship between ancestry and rec rate
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Replying to @pandolfatto @ErinCalfee
Gene flow between domesticated and wild maize along an altitudinal gradient
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Replying to @MollySchumer @pandolfatto
Good Q! Maize has zero fitness 'in the wild'. Farmers are likely directly selecting for maize ancestry at domestication loci and indirectly selecting for clines in ancestry across elevation at flowering time and macrohair loci by replanting the best adapted highest yield plants.
9:32 AM - 25 Jun 2019
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