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Analyses of Natural Variation: Field Experiments and Nucleotide Diversity for Your Favorite Gene
Carlos Alonso-Blanco1, Belén Méndez-Vigo2, F Xavier Picó3
1Departamento de Genética Molecular de Plantas, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain. calonso@cnb.csic.es.
Abstract:
Arabidopsis has become a model plant for ecological and population genomics, owing to the substantial phenotypic and genotypic variation that exists among and within natural populations. Specially, the recent availability of large worldwide collections of accessions, together with their full genome sequences, has triggered the study of Arabidopsis natural variation. In this chapter, we describe two protocols that exploit these new resources to understand the natural variation for any trait and gene: (1) the phenotypic analysis of Arabidopsis plants grown in field experiments; (2) the analysis of nucleotide diversity and environmental associations for specific genes.
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