Climate Shaped the Worldwide Distribution of Human Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Variation
There is an ongoing discussion in the literature on whether human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) evolves neutrally. There have been previous claims for natural selection on human mtDNA based on an excess of non-synonymous mutations and higher evolutionary persistence of specific mitochondrial mutations i...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Proceedings: Biological Sciences. - The Royal Society. - 276(2009), 1672, Seite 3447-3455
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| 1. Verfasser: |
Balloux, François
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Handley, Lori-Jayne Lawson,
Jombart, Thibaut,
Liu, Hua,
Manica, Andrea |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz
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| Sprache: | English |
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| Veröffentlicht: |
2009
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Proceedings: Biological Sciences
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| Schlagworte: | mtDNA
selection
climate
temperature
human evolution
single nucleotide polymorphisms
Physical sciences
Biological sciences
Applied sciences |
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