Unreliable mtDNA data due to nuclear insertions: a cautionary tale from analysis of humans and other great apes
- 28 January 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Ecology
- Vol. 13 (2) , 321-335
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-294x.2003.02070.x
Abstract
Analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequence variation has been used extensively to study the evolutionary relationships of individuals and populations, both within and across species. So ubiquitous and ea...Keywords
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