Back to the Origin: In Situ Studies Are Needed to Understand Selection during Crop Diversification
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1 Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States, 2 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, 3 Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States, 4 Laboratory of Evolutionary Entomology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 5 Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, Irapuato, Mexico
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