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SUBMITTER: James JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4737298 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
James Jennifer E JE Piganeau Gwenael G Eyre-Walker Adam A
Molecular ecology 20151217 1
We have investigated whether there is adaptive evolution in mitochondrial DNA, using an extensive data set containing over 500 animal species from a wide range of taxonomic groups. We apply a variety of McDonald-Kreitman style methods to the data. We find that the evolution of mitochondrial DNA is dominated by slightly deleterious mutations, a finding which is supported by a number of previous studies. However, when we control for the presence of deleterious mutations using a new method, we find ...[more]