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Positive and purifying selection in mitochondrial genomes of a bird with mitonuclear discordance.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jun 2015
Morales Hernán E, Pavlova Alexandra, Joseph Leo, Sunnucks Paul
Abstract excerpt
Diversifying selection on metabolic pathways can reduce intraspecific gene flow and promote population divergence. An opportunity to explore this arises from mitonuclear discordance observed in an Australian bird Eopsaltria australis. Across >1500 km, nuclear differentiation is low and latitudinally structured by isolation by distance, whereas two highly divergent, parapatric mitochondrial lineages (>6.6% in ND2)...
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