Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Independent molecular basis of convergent highland adaptation in maize
Shohei Takuno, Peter Ralph, Kelly Swarts…·Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
The paper examines convergent adaptation in maize to highland climates, finding limited nucleotide-level convergence but evidence of selection on standing variation and introgression from wild teosinte.
DOI 10.1534/genetics.115.178327