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Surprisingly low limits of selection in plant domestication

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Allaby, Robin G., Kitchen, James and Fuller, Dorian Q. (2016) Surprisingly low limits of selection in plant domestication. Evolutionary Bioinformatics (2). pp. 41-51. doi:10.4137/EBO.S33495

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Abstract

Current debate concerns the pace at which domesticated plants emerged from cultivated wild populations and how many genes were involved. Using an individual-based model, based on the assumptions of Haldane and Maynard Smith, respectively, we estimate that a surprisingly low number of 50–100 loci are the most that could be under selection in a cultivation regime at the selection strengths observed in the archaeological record. This finding is robust to attempts to rescue populations from extinction through selection from high standing genetic variation, gene flow, and the Maynard Smith-based model of threshold selection. Selective sweeps come at a cost, reducing the capacity of plants to adapt to new environments, which may contribute to the explanation of why selective sweeps have not been detected more frequently and why expansion of the agrarian package during the Neolithic was so frequently associated with collapse.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: S Agriculture > SB Plant culture
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- )
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Plants, Cultivated
Journal or Publication Title: Evolutionary Bioinformatics
Publisher: Libertas Academica Ltd.
ISSN: 1176-9343
Official Date: 5 April 2016
Dates:
DateEvent
5 April 2016Published
13 December 2015Accepted
Number: 2
Number of Pages: 11
Page Range: pp. 41-51
DOI: 10.4137/EBO.S33495
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder: Leverhulme Trust (LT), European Research Council (ERC)
Grant number: F/00 215/BC (LT), 323842 (ERC)

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