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The causes of mutation accumulation in mitochondrial genomes.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Apr 2009

Neiman Maurine, Taylor Douglas R

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A fundamental observation across eukaryotic taxa is that mitochondrial genomes have a higher load of deleterious mutations than nuclear genomes. Identifying the evolutionary forces that drive this difference is important to understanding the rates and patterns of sequence evolution, the efficacy of natural selection, the maintenance of sex and recombination and the mechanisms underlying human ageing and many...

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PMID: 19203921
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1758
PMCID: PMC2660971

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