Parallel Altitudinal Clines Reveal Adaptive Evolution Of Genome Size In Zea mays
P. Bilinski, P. S. Albert, J. J. Berg, J. Birchler, M. Grote, A. Lorant, J. Quezada, K. Swarts, J. Yang, J. Ross-Ibarra
The paper investigates genome size variation in Zea mays across altitudinal gradients, finding natural selection drives genome size changes through repeat content and linking it to flowering time and cell division rates.
PLOS Genetics · May 10, 2018Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology