Strong purifying selection in transmission of mammalian mitochondrial DNA.

There is an intense debate concerning whether selection or demographics has been most important in shaping the sequence variation observed in modern human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Purifying selection is thought to be important in shaping mtDNA sequence evolution, but the strength of this selection...

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Main Authors: James Bruce Stewart, Christoph Freyer, Joanna L Elson, Anna Wredenberg, Zekiye Cansu, Aleksandra Trifunovic, Nils-Göran Larsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2214808