Positive selection on the killer whale mitogenome
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Positive selection on the killer whale mitogenome.
Mitochondria produce up to 95 per cent of the eukaryotic cell's energy. The coding genes of the mitochondrial DNA may therefore evolve under selection owing to metabolic requirements. The killer whale, Orcinus orca, is polymorphic, has a global distribution and occupies a range of ecological niches. It is therefore a suitable organism for testing this hypothesis. We compared a global dataset of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biology Letters
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1744-9561,1744-957X
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0638