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Mitochondrial DNA as a marker of molecular diversity: a reappraisal.

Molecular ecology - 1 Nov 2009

Galtier N, Nabholz B, Glémin S, Hurst G D D

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Over the last three decades, mitochondrial DNA has been the most popular marker of molecular diversity, for a combination of technical ease-of-use considerations, and supposed biological and evolutionary properties of clonality, near-neutrality and clock-like nature of its substitution rate. Reviewing recent literature on the subject, we argue that mitochondrial DNA is not always clonal, far from neutrally...

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PMID: 19821901
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04380.x

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