Matthew B Hufford

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.

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.

This study uses ancient population genomic techniques to trace the origin and evolution of maize in the American Southwest, identifying two diffusion routes and genetic adaptations to local environments.

The paper investigates the prevalence and role of the Hopscotch transposable element at the tb1 locus in teosinte, finding it present in multiple populations but not strongly linked to tillering.