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Panzea: a database and resource for molecular and functional diversity in the maize genome

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Panzea: a database and resource for molecular and functional diversity in the maize genome
Serving as a community resource, Panzea (http:// www.panzea.org) is the bioinformatics arm of the Molecular and Functional Diversity in the Maize Genome project. Maize, a classical model for genetic studies, is an important crop species and also the most diverse crop species known. On average, two randomly chosen maize lines have one singlenucleotide polymorphism every 100 bp; this divergence is roughly equivalent to the differences between humans and chimpanzees. This exceptional genotypic diversity underlies the phenotypic diversity maize needs to be cultivated in a wide range of environments. The Molecular and Functional Diversity in the Maize Genome project aims to understand how selection has shaped molecular diversity in maize and then relate molecular diversity to functional phenotypic variation. The project will screen 4000 loci for the signature of selection and create a wide range of maize and maize
Wei Zhao, Payan Canaran, Rebecca Jurkuta, Theresa
Added 14 Dec 2010
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Type Journal
Year 2006
Where NAR
Authors Wei Zhao, Payan Canaran, Rebecca Jurkuta, Theresa Fulton, Jeffrey Glaubitz, Edward S. Buckler, John Doebley, Brandon Gaut, Major Goodman, Jim Holland, Stephen Kresovich, Michael D. McMullen, Lincoln Stein, Doreen Ware
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