It seems that finally, after decades of serving up tomatoes of increasing blandness and wateriness, somebody out there yielded to pressure and started actually tasting the tomatoes they were selecting for sale in our supermarkets.
"They have implications for understanding later developments in maize domestication and help us to see what people were selecting for at the time".
This implies that people were not only harvesting--and likely grinding and cooking--teosinte seeds before these mutations came along, but also were selecting for favorable features such as kernel quality and cob size.
Adult mule deer killed by mountain lions were more likely to be prion-infected than were deer killed more randomly in sympatric populations, suggesting that mountain lions were selecting for infected individuals when they targeted adult deer.
We found no evidence that integrin expression was regulated by soluble factor(s) released by endothelial cells or that we were selecting for a population of strongly β1 integrin-expressing trophoblasts.
Why the allele for non-shattering and not the non-shattering plants themselves was dispersed is an interesting puzzle, suggesting that early farmers were selecting for the non-shattering trait in combination with additional traits not found in the original non-shattering plants.
