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Mitochondria, bioenergetics, and the epigenome in eukaryotic and human evolution.
Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology - 1 Jan 2009
Wallace D C
Abstract excerpt
Studies on the origin of species have focused largely on anatomy, yet animal populations are generally limited by energy. Animals can adapt to available energy resources at three levels: (1) evolution of different anatomical forms between groups of animals through nuclear DNA (nDNA) mutations, permitting exploitation of alternative energy reservoirs and resulting in new species with novel niches, (2) evolution of...
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