The Evolution of Recombination under Domestication: A Test of Two Hypotheses

@article{RossIbarra2004TheEO,
  title={The Evolution of Recombination under Domestication: A Test of Two Hypotheses},
  author={Jeffrey Ross‐Ibarra},
  journal={The American Naturalist},
  year={2004},
  volume={163},
  pages={105 - 112}
}
The successful domestication of wild plants has been one of the most important human accomplishments of the last 10,000 yr. Though our empirical knowledge of the genetic mechanisms of plant domestication is still relatively limited, there exists a large body of theory that offers a host of hypotheses on the genetics of domestication. Two of these that have not been addressed concern the role of recombination in the process of domestication. The first predicts an increase in recombination rate… 
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