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The erratic mitochondrial clock: variations of mutation rate, not population size, affect mtDNA diversity across birds and mammals.

BMC evolutionary biology - 10 Mar 2009

Nabholz Benoit, Glémin Sylvain, Galtier Nicolas

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BACKGROUND: During the last ten years, major advances have been made in characterizing and understanding the evolution of mitochondrial DNA, the most popular marker of molecular biodiversity. Several important results were recently reported using mammals as model organisms, including (i) the absence of relationship between mitochondrial DNA diversity and life-history or ecological variables, (ii) the absence of...

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PMID: 19284537
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-54
PMCID: PMC2660308

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