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The erratic mitochondrial clock: variations of mutation rate, not population size, affect mtDNA diversity across birds and mammals
BACKGROUND: 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 using mammals as model organisms, including (i) the absence...
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BioMed Central
2009
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2660308/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19284537 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-54 |