Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Recent demography drives changes in linked selection across the maize genome
Timothy Mathes Beissinger, Li Wang, Kate Crosby…·Jeff Ross-Ibarra
The paper examines how recent demographic changes in maize affect linked selection, finding reduced purifying selection during domestication and stronger purifying selection in young alleles due to population expansion.
DOI 10.1038/nplants.2016.84