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GENETICS
Volume 180, Issue 2, Pages 1107-1121Publisher
GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.088849
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- Agence National de la Recherche [ANR-05-JCJC-0067-01]
- Institut National de Recherche Agronomique (INRA) [DGAP-AOSG-2006]
- INRA
- Languedoc-Roussillon region
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-05-JCJC-0067] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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We focused on a region encompassing a major maize domestication locus, Tb1, and a locus involved in the flowering time variation, Dwarf8 (D8), to investigate the consequences of two closely linked selective sweeps on nucleotide variation and gain some insights into maize geographical diffusion, through climate adaptation. First, we physically mapped D8 at similar to 300 kb 3' of Tb1. Second, we analyzed patterns of nucleotide variation at Tb1, D8, and seven short regions (400-700 bp) located in the Tb1-D8 region sequenced on a 40 maize inbred lines panel encompassing early-flowering temperate and late-flowering tropical lines. The pattern of polymorphism along the region is characterized by two valleys of depleted polymorphism while the region in between exhibits an appreciable amount of diversity. Our results reveal that a region similar to 100 kb upstream of the D8 gene exhibits hallmarks of divergent selection between temperate and tropical lines and is likely closer than the D8 gene to the target of selection for climate adaptation. Selection in the tropical lines appears more recent than in the temperate lines, suggesting an initial domestication of early-flowering maize. Simulation results indicate that the polymorphism pattern is consistent with two interfering selective sweeps at Tb1 and D8.
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