Over the last three decades, mitochondrial DNA has been the most popular marker of
molecular diversity, for a combination of technical ease‐of‐use considerations, and …

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

Statistical tests for detecting mosaic structure or recombination among nucleotide
sequences usually rely on identifying a pattern or a signal that would be unlikely to appear …

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 …

Many clonal organisms experience occasional events of sexual recombination, with
profound consequences for their population dynamics and evolutionary trajectories. With the …

It is generally assumed that mitochondrial genomes are uniparentally transmitted,
homoplasmic and nonrecombining. However, these assumptions draw largely from early …

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is predominately uniparentally transmitted. This results in
organisms with a single type of mtDNA (homoplasmy), but two or more mtDNA haplotypes …

Migraine is a common neurological disorder which affects 15–20% of the population; it has a
high socioeconomic impact through treatment and loss of productivity. Current forms of …

Recombination in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) remains a controversial topic. Here we
present a survey of 279 animal mtDNA data sets, of which 12 were from asexual species …

Phylogenetic analysis has changed greatly in the past decade, including the more
widespread appreciation of the idea that evolutionary histories are not always tree-like, and …