Thomas Bataillon

TL;DR: Whether some of the genes departed from the empirical distribution of most loci are investigated, suggesting that they might have been selected during domestication or breeding, and a departure from the null model of demographic bottleneck for the hypothetical gene HgA is detected.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the initial step in adaptive evolution—the production of novel beneficial mutants from which selection sorts—is very general, being characterized by an approximately exponential distribution with many mutations of small effect and few of large effect.

TL;DR: The authors' analyses reveal that M. truncatula harbors both higher diversity and less LD than soybean (Glycine max) and exhibits patterns of LD and recombination similar to Arabidopsis thaliana, and the population-scaled recombination rate is approximately one-third of the mutation rate, consistent with expectations for a species with a high selfing rate.

TL;DR: P phenotypic selection models that examine the selection of floral traits influencing several modes of selling simultaneously are presented and suggest that reproductive assurance may be more important than has been appreciated.

TL;DR: The history of domesticated grasses is reviewed and how domestication affected their phenotypic and genomic diversity is reviewed, and the role of mating systems in the domestication process is revisited.