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Why should mitochondria define species?
2018-03-07
Abstract excerpt
More than a decade of DNA barcoding encompassing about five million specimens covering 100,000 animal species supports the generalization that mitochondrial DNA clusters largely overlap with species as defined by domain experts. Most barcode clustering reflects synonymous substitutions. What evolutionary mechanisms account for synonymous clusters being largely coincident with species? The answer depends on whether...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 12719f82-3b87-5465-b937-d5bdc090e87e
- DOI
- 10.1101/276717