Evidence for variation in the effective population size of animal mitochondrial DNA.

It has recently been shown that levels of diversity in mitochondrial DNA are remarkably constant across animals of diverse census population sizes and ecologies, which has led to the suggestion that the effective population of mitochondrial DNA may be relatively constant.Here we present several line...

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Main Authors: Gwenael Piganeau, Adam Eyre-Walker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2635931?pdf=render