Wild progenitors provide a sound baseline model for evolutionary analysis of domesticated crop species

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¹ Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Gene Engineering in Jiangxi, School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China. zhonglm@ncu.edu.cn.
² Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Gene Engineering in Jiangxi, School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China. ylzhu@ncu.edu.cn.
³ Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA. kolsen@wustl.edu.

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Limei Zhong et al. Heredity (Edinb). 2023 Mar.

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doi: 10.1038/s41437-023-00605-w. Epub 2023 Feb 24.

¹ Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Gene Engineering in Jiangxi, School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China. zhonglm@ncu.edu.cn.
² Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Gene Engineering in Jiangxi, School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China. ylzhu@ncu.edu.cn.
³ Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA. kolsen@wustl.edu.

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