Pauli Ojala is acknowledged for ideas and discussions on analyses.
LG, MVZ, and LS contributed to discussions on analyses and interpretation of results, and revised the manuscript.
We thank Dr Richard Emes (University College London) and colleagues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for helpful discussions on the analyses.
Thank you to Marc Cadotte, Ammon Corl, Christy Hipsley, Emma Goldberg, Kathleen Kay, Susan Mazer, Don Miles, Johannes Mueller, and Jim Regetz for helpful discussions on phylogenetic analyses and software.
We thank Torbjørn Rognes and Andrew Reiner for valuable discussions on bioinformatic analyses, and Timothy Hughes, Susanne Lorenz and Leonardo Meza-Zapeda for assistance on ChIP-seq and mapping of ChIP-seq reads.
We kindly thank Sabrina Reale and Ottavia Argenzio for helpful discussions on SEC-TDA analyses and shakeflask cultivations.
We thank N. Kitagawa, N. Yanagisawa, H. Umeki, K. Matsuoka, S. Ushiyama, and M. Matsui of the Tomita laboratory for useful discussions on IVV data analyses.
ZL, LG, HL and JX contributed to discussions on the evolutionary analyses and helped to draft the manuscript.
We would like to thank Jan Dvorak for kindly providing us with the seeds of Ae. tauschii, Tetra-Cantach and synthetic polyploid wheat, Gary Gadbury for helpful discussions on the statistical analyses of microarray data and Cyrille Saintenac, Miranda Gray and four anonymous reviewers for valuable comments on the earlier versions of the manuscript.
We wish to thank Patrizia Aimar for her excellent electron microscopy technical expertise, and Nadia Canalia for helpful discussion on quantitative analyses and statistics.
