Selective sweep with significant positive selection serves as the driving force for the differentiation of japonica and indica rice cultivars

Abstract Background Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.), including japonica and indica, is unarguable the most important crop in Asia as well as worldwide. However, a decisive conclusion of its origination and domestication processes are still lacking. Nowadays, the ever-increasing high-throughp...

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Main Authors: Yang Yuan, Qijun Zhang, Shuiyun Zeng, Longjiang Gu, Weina Si, Xiaohui Zhang, Dacheng Tian, Sihai Yang, Long Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-04-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-017-3702-x