1,135 Genomes Reveal the Global Pattern of Polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana

Summary Arabidopsis thaliana serves as a model organism for the study of fundamental physiological, cellular, and molecular processes. It has also greatly advanced our understanding of intraspecific genome variation. We present a detailed map of variation in 1,135 high-quality re-sequenced natural inbred lines representing the native Eurasian and North African range and recently colonized North America. We identify relict populations that continue to inhabit ancestral habitats, primarily in the Iberian Peninsula. They have mixed with a lineage that has spread to northern latitudes from an unknown glacial refugium and is now found in a much broader spectrum of habitats. Insights into the history of the species and the fine-scale distribution of genetic diversity provide the basis for full exploitation of A. thaliana natural variation through integration of genomes and epigenomes with molecular and non-molecular phenotypes.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Cell

• Publication date

  2016-07-14

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2016.05.063PMID 27293186PMCID 4949382
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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