▪ Abstract Several unique properties of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), including its
high copy number, maternal inheritance, lack of recombination, and high mutation rate, have …

Human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) studies have entered a new phase since the
blossoming of complete genome analyses. Sequencing complete mtDNAs is more …

The Human Genome Project, from one perspective, began in 1981 with the publication 1 of
the complete sequence of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). The Cambridge reference …

Mutational events along the human mtDNA phylogeny are traditionally identified relative to
the revised Cambridge Reference Sequence, a contemporary European sequence …

There can be no doubt that Peter Bellwood's First Farmers is a major new statement which
presents a robustly expressed solution to one of those classic problems which provides a …

The analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been a potent tool in our understanding of
human evolution, owing to characteristics such as high copy number, apparent lack of …

Human mtDNA shows striking regional variation, traditionally attributed to genetic drift.
However, it is not easy to account for the fact that only two mtDNA lineages (M and N) left …

There is currently no calibration available for the whole human mtDNA genome,
incorporating both coding and control regions. Furthermore, as several authors have pointed …

In recent years, there has been a tendency to correlate the origin of modern culture and
language with that of anatomically modern humans. Here we discuss this correlation in the …

When modern humans left Africa ca. 60,000 years ago (60 kya), they were already infected
with Helicobacter pylori, and these bacteria have subsequently diversified in parallel with …