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On the evolutionary history of the domesticated apple

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Harrison and Harrison comment on one of the conclusions of our recent article1, namely that Malus × domestica was domesticated from M. sieversii, a wild apple species still common in central Asia2. They suggest that our data do not allow us to exclude M. sylvestris (European crab apple) as one of the progenitors of M. × domestica.

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Figure 1: Phylogenetic relationships between M. × domestica, M. sieversii and M. sylvestris, excluding putative half-sibs and putative M. sylvestris × M. × domestica hybrids.

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We thank D. Charlesworth, B. Charlesworth, K. Lohse and A. Rambaut for valuable suggestions and informative discussions. R.J.H. is funded by the UK Medical Research Council, and N.H. is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

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    Diego Micheletti, Michela Troggio, Francesco Salamini, Roberto Viola, Riccardo Velasco & Silvio Salvi

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