title: Plant molecular diversity and applications to genomics.
abstract: Surveys of nucleotide diversity are beginning to show how genomes have been shaped by evolution. Nucleotide diversity is also being used to discover the function of genes through the mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) in structured populations, the positional cloning of strong QTL, and association mapping.
authors.affiliation: USDA-ARS and Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7614, USA. buckler@statgen.ncsu.edu
authors.forename: Edward S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Buckler
authors.forename: Jeffry M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Thornsberry
mesh_terms: D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D014644:Genetic Variation; D018745:Genome, Plant; D023281:Genomics; D010641:Phenotype; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics*; D019655:Quantitative Trait, Heritable