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Nuclear-mitochondrial sequences as witnesses of past interbreeding and population diversity in the jumping bristletail Mesomachilis.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jan 2011
Baldo Laura, de Queiroz Alan, Hedin Marshal, Hayashi Cheryl Y, Gatesy John
Abstract excerpt
Nuclear-mitochondrial sequences (NUMTs) can be especially powerful tools for evolutionary studies by providing a window into the nature of ancestral mitochondrial (mt) lineages. Here, we illustrate this property of NUMTs through a survey of such sequences in two species of the jumping bristletail genus Mesomachilis. An ∼1,800 basepair fragment encompassing three mt genes--COI, tRNA-Leu, and COII--was cloned twice...
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