Add maize/corn (ZeaMay)

[gregorgorjanc]

• Name: Zea Mays
• Common name: Maize/Corn

Description:

Have assembled working information and will go over it in the Grow the zoo hackhaton.

[petrelharp]

ambitious! =) love it.

[gregorgorjanc]

Adding some literature pointers:

2021: De novo assembly, annotation, and comparative analysis of 26 diverse maize genomes
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.abg5289
--> genome

2017: Contributions of Zea mays subspecies mexicana haplotypes to modern maize
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02063-5
--> mutation rate

2021: Not so local: the population genetics of convergent adaptation in maize and teosinte
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.09.459637v1.abstract
--> demography

2021: Selective sorting of ancestral introgression in maize and teosinte along an elevational cline
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.05.434040v3
--> demography

2017: The interplay of demography and selection during maize domestication and expansion
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-017-1346-4
--> captures drop in Ne, but also recent growth!?