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An evolutionary genomic tale of two rice species

Nature Genetics volume 46, pages 931–932 (2014)Cite this article

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The domestication of African rice, Oryza glaberrima, occurred separately from that of the much more widespread Asian rice species Oryza sativa. Analysis of the whole-genome sequence for O. glaberrima shows the extent to which the same genes were involved in these distinct but parallel evolutionary events.

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Figure 1: Parallel domestications of two rice species.

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  1. Michael D. Purugganan is in the Department of Biology, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York, New York, USA, and in the New York University Abu Dhabi Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.,

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Purugganan, M. An evolutionary genomic tale of two rice species. Nat Genet 46, 931–932 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3071

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