Mitochondrial DNA recombination - no need to panic

Authors
Macaulay, V Richards, M Sykes, B
Citation
V. Macaulay et al., Mitochondrial DNA recombination - no need to panic, P ROY SOC B, 266(1433), 1999, pp. 2037-2039
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Experimental Biology
Journal title
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
ISSN journal
09628452 → ACNP
Volume
266
Issue
1433
Year of publication
1999
Pages
2037 - 2039
Database
ISI
SICI code
0962-8452(19991022)266:1433<2037:MDR-NN>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
Recombination has recently been invoked as an explanation for the large amo unt of homoplasy observed in a collection of complete or nearly complete hu man mitochondrial sequences. Here we show that some of the data on which th is conclusion was based are likely to be unreliable and that if these data are excluded, the results are no longer significant.