Explaining large mitochondrial sequence differences within a population sample
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Explaining large mitochondrial sequence differences within a population sample
Mitochondrial DNA sequence is frequently used to infer species' boundaries, as divergence is relatively rapid when populations are reproductively isolated. However, the shared history of a non-recombining gene naturally leads to correlation of pairwise differences, resulting in mtDNA clusters that might be mistaken for evidence of multiple species. There are four distinct processes that can exp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Royal Society Open Science
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2054-5703
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.170730