The erratic mitochondrial clock: variations of mutation rate, not population size, affect mtDNA diversity across birds and mammals
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>During the last ten years, major advances have been made in characterizing and understanding the evolution of mitochondrial DNA, the most popular marker of molecular biodiversity. Several important results were recently reported usin...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2009-03-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/9/54 |