The erratic mitochondrial clock: Variations of mutation rate, not population size, affect mtDNA diversity across birds and mammals

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Nabholz, Benoit ^a   Glémin, Sylvain ^a   Galtier, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BIRD; BODY SIZE; CODON; LONGEVITY; MAMMAL; METABOLIC RATE; MITOCHONDRION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SIZE; SEX CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LONGEVITY; MAMMALS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 63049112416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-54     Document Type: Article

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