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Patterns of linkage disequilibrium in mitochondrial DNA of 16 ruminant populations.
Molecular ecology - 1 Mar 2003
Slate J, Phua S H
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is a widely employed molecular tool in phylogeography, in the inference of human evolutionary history, in dating the domestication of livestock and in forensic science. In humans and other vertebrates the popularity of mtDNA can be partially attributed to an assumption of strict maternal inheritance, such that there is no recombination between mitochondrial lineages. The recent...
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