Maize depends entirely on humans for its survival and dispersal, making it a powerful system for studying biocultural coevolution. Using genomic data from nearly 2,000 traditional maize varieties alongside human genetic and linguistic data…
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) | Evolution
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Topics: Evolution- Evolutionary dynamics of collective behavior across the tree of ray-finned fishes
- Codfishes survived essential gene loss by functionally co-opting freshwater ovulatory pathways to marine egg hydration
- Maize genetic diversity is largely unstructured by human ethnolinguistic diversity in its center of origin
- Deep mutational scanning of the GPCR rhodopsin reveals pleiotropic mutational effects and their roles in modulating receptor signaling
- A symbiogenic merger enabled by oxygen initiated the evolution of eukaryotes
- The efficiency of information gain by natural selection
- Behavioral evidence for two-stage sleep in spiders
- Reply to Soley: Testing haplodiploidy, not relatedness in general
- A comment on phylogenetic tests of the haplodiploidy hypothesis for eusociality
- Integrating ecology with genetics to explain gene reuse during repeated evolution
