1) The document discusses how population bottlenecks during domestication can reduce genetic diversity and influence patterns of variation across the genome.
2) Bottlenecks are shown to increase the number of rare variants, affect site frequency spectra, and influence the effects of purifying selection. They can also mimic signals of positive selection.
3) Studies of maize domestication estimate a weaker bottleneck than previously thought, with rapid recent population growth increasing diversity from resequencing data. However, selection still reduces diversity more in genic regions relative to intergenic regions.