Molecular evolution of dimeric α-amylase inhibitor genes in wild emmer wheat and its ecological association

Ji-Rui Wang^*¹ , Yu-Ming Wei^*¹ , Xiang-Yu Long¹ , Ze-Hong Yan¹ , Eviatar Nevo² , Bernard R Baum³ and You-Liang Zheng¹^,4

¹Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Yaan, Sichuan 625014, China

²Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel

³Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6, Canada

⁴Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Resources and Improvement in Southwest China, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Agricultural University, Yaan, Sichuan 625014, China

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:91doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-91


Published:	24 March 2008

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Positive fragment and the frequency of each primer in 16 Population of wild emmer wheat. This data showed the frequency of each specific primer in the 16 populations calculated by POPGENE 1.32.

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Nei's genetic distance of the inhibitor genes in the 16 populations. This data showed the genetic distances (D) based on the positive fragment of SNP markers among all population pairs.

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Principal components analysis. This data showed the eigenvalues of correlation matrix, eigenvectors and factor coodinates of 16 populations.

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Principal components analysis of the ecological factors. This data showed the projection of the variables on the ecological factor-plane and eigenvalues of correlation matrix.

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Correlations of the Factors. This data showed the correlation of the 20 ecological factors that separated into four groups.

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