The interplay of demography and selection during maize domestication and expansion

The history of maize has been characterized by major demographic events, including population size changes associated with domestication and range expansion, and gene flow with wild relatives. The interplay between demographic history and selection has shaped diversity across maize populations and genomes.We investigate these processes using high-depth resequencing data from 31 maize landraces spanning the pre-Columbian distribution of maize,...