The domestication of African rice, Oryza glaberrima, occurred separately from that of the much more widespread Asian rice species Oryza sativa. Analysis of the whole-genome sequence for O. glaberrima shows the extent to which the same genes were involved in these distinct but parallel evolutionary events.
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Purugganan, M. An evolutionary genomic tale of two rice species. Nat Genet 46, 931–932 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3071
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