Abstract
Tandern duplications served as the basis for some of the central concepts in genetics that emerged from scutiny of maize. The work of L. J. Stadler on the R locus contributed to current thinking on spontaneous mutation, recombination, and divergence of tissue-specific expression (e.g., Stadler 1946; Stadler and Emmerling 1956). Work on the A locus by J. Laughnan gave rise to the concept of intrachromosomal recombination involving tandem duplications (Laughnan 1949).
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Birchler, J.A. (1994). Duplications. In: Freeling, M., Walbot, V. (eds) The Maize Handbook. Springer Lab Manuals. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2694-9_76
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