Open Access Research article

Signatures of balancing selection are maintained at disease resistance loci following mating system evolution and a population bottleneck in the genus Capsella

Gesseca Gos1*, Tanja Slotte2 and Stephen I Wright3

1 Department of Biology, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada

2 Department of Evolutionary Biology, EBC, Uppsala University, NorbyƤgen 18D, Uppsala 75236, Sweden

3 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2, Canada

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2012, 12:152 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-12-152

Published: 21 August 2012

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Table S1. Locations of the individuals from which the R-gene sequences were sampled.

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Table S2. Locations of the individuals from which the genome-wide sequences were sampled.

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Table S3. Primers used for PCR amplification of R-gene fragments. * Data from C. grandiflora only.

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Table S4. BlastX Coordinates and protein coding domains for the R-gene fragments. * Data from C. grandiflora only.

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