Organellar Genomes from a ∼5,000-Year-old archaeological maize sample are closely related to NB genotype

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The story of how preColumbian civilizations developed goes hand-in-hand with the process of plant domestication by Mesoamerican inhabitants. Here, we present the almost complete sequence of a mitochondrial genome and a partial chloroplast genomefrom an archaeological maize sample collected at the Valley of Tehuacán,México. Accelerator mass spectrometry dated the maize sample to be 5,040-5,300 years before present (95% probability). Phylogenetic analysis of the mitochondrial genome shows that the archaeological sample branches basal to the other Zea mays genomes, as expected. However, this analysis also indicates that fertile genotype NB is closely related to the archaeological maize sample and evolved before cytoplasmic male sterility genotypes (CMS-S, CMS-T, and CMS-C), thus contradicting previous phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial genomes from maize.Weshowthat maximum-likelihood infers a tree whereCMSgenotypes branch at the base of the tree when including sites that have a relative fast rate of evolution thus suggesting long-branch attraction. We also show that Bayesian analysis infer a topology where NB and the archaeological maize sample are at the base of the tree even when including faster sites. We therefore suggest that previous trees suffered from long-branch attraction. We also show that the phylogenetic analysis of the ancient chloroplast is congruent with genotype NB to be more closely related to the archaeological maize sample. As shown here, the inclusion of ancient genomes on phylogenetic trees greatly improves our understanding of the domestication process of maize, one of the most important crops worldwide.

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Pérez-Zamorano, B., Vallebueno-Estrada, M., González, J. M., Cook, A. G., Montiel, R., Vielle-Calzada, J. P., & Delaye, L. (2017). Organellar Genomes from a ∼5,000-Year-old archaeological maize sample are closely related to NB genotype. Genome Biology and Evolution, 9(4), 904–915. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evx048

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