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Nuclear insertions help and hinder inference of the evolutionary history of gorilla mtDNA.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jan 2005
Thalmann O, Serre D, Hofreiter M, Lukas D, Eriksson J, Vigilant L
Abstract excerpt
Numts are fragments of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) that have been translocated to the nucleus, where they can persist while their mitochondrial counterparts continue to rapidly evolve. Thus, numts represent 'molecular fossils' useful for comparison with mitochondrial variation, and are particularly suited for studies of the fast-evolving hypervariable segment of the mitochondrial control region (HV1). Here we used...
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