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Evolution of maize inferred from sequence diversity of an Adh2 gene segment from archaeological specimens.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ·Vol. 90 ·No. 5 ·1993-03-01 ·Pages 1997-2001

Goloubinoff P, Pääbo S, Wilson AC

Abstract

A segment of the nuclear gene encoding alcohol dehydrogenase 2 (Adh2) was amplified and sequenced from extracts of archaeological maize specimens up to 4700 years old and from contemporary samples. Sequence diversity in ancient maize equals that of contemporary maize. Some ancient Adh2 alleles are identical or closely related to contemporary alleles. The data suggest that the gene pool of maize is millions of years old and that domestic races of maize stem from several wild ancestral populations.

Related Genes
Adh2
MeSH Terms
Alcohol Dehydrogenase/genetics Alleles Archaeology Base Sequence Biological Evolution Genes, Plant Molecular Sequence Data Oligodeoxyribonucleotides/chemistry Phylogeny Sequence Alignment Zea mays/genetics
Chemicals
Oligodeoxyribonucleotides Alcohol Dehydrogenase
Authors & Affiliations
3 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Goloubinoff P
Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720.
Pääbo S
Wilson A C
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Article Info
Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Abbr.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
ISSN
0027-8424
DOI
10.1073/pnas.90.5.1997
Published
1993-03-01
Pages
1997-2001
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
7505876
PMCID
PMC46007
Subset
IM
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.5.1997 PMC Full Text View journal details
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