Authors
Carlos Alonso-Blanco, Jorge Andrade, Claude Becker, Felix Bemm, Joy Bergelson, Karsten M Borgwardt, Jun Cao, Eunyoung Chae, Todd M Dezwaan, Wei Ding, Joseph R Ecker, Moises Exposito-Alonso, Ashley Farlow, Joffrey Fitz, Xiangchao Gan, Dominik G Grimm, Angela M Hancock, Stefan R Henz, Svante Holm, Matthew Horton, Mike Jarsulic, Randall A Kerstetter, Arthur Korte, Pamela Korte, Christa Lanz, Cheng-Ruei Lee, Dazhe Meng, Todd P Michael, Richard Mott, Ni Wayan Muliyati, Thomas Nägele, Matthias Nagler, Viktoria Nizhynska, Magnus Nordborg, Polina Yu Novikova, F Xavier Picó, Alexander Platzer, Fernando A Rabanal, Alex Rodriguez, Beth A Rowan, Patrice A Salomé, Karl J Schmid, Robert J Schmitz, Ümit Seren, Felice Gianluca Sperone, Mitchell Sudkamp, Hannes Svardal, Matt M Tanzer, Donald Todd, Samuel L Volchenboum, Congmao Wang, George Wang, Xi Wang, Wolfram Weckwerth, Detlef Weigel, Xuefeng Zhou
Publication date
2016/7/14
Journal
Cell
Volume
166
Issue
2
Pages
481-491
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
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.
Scholar articles
C Alonso-Blanco, J Andrade, C Becker, F Bemm… - Cell, 2016