Megabase-scale presence-absence variation with Tripsacum origin was under selection during maize domestication and adaptation.
Yumin HuangWei HuangZhuang MengGuilherme Tomaz BrazYunfei LiKai WangHai WangJinsheng LaiJiming JiangZhaobin DongWeiwei JinPublished in: Genome biology (2021)
These findings provide a novel perspective that Tripsacum contributes to Zea speciation, and also instantiate a strategy for evolutionary and functional analysis of the "fossil" structure variations during genome evolution and speciation.