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Daily Archives: 26 Aug, 2015
The unforeseen genomic consequences of domestication
When a desired genome is selected for propagation, all mutations, beneficial, neutral, or deleterious, shift in frequency, and this sometimes can have unforeseen consequences. Natural selection takes the good with the bad. Beneficial and harmful mutations combine to provide a net … Continue reading
Posted in domestication, genomics, plants, selection, transcriptomics
Tagged mutation, sunflowers
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