Article: Stronger evidence for relaxed selection than adaptive evolution in high-elevation animal mtDNA.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
2024
Abstract: Mitochondrial (mt) genes are the subject of many adaptive hypotheses due to the key role of mitochondria in energy production and metabolism. One widespread adaptive hypothesis is that selection imposed by life at high elevation leads to the rapid ... ...
Abstract | Mitochondrial (mt) genes are the subject of many adaptive hypotheses due to the key role of mitochondria in energy production and metabolism. One widespread adaptive hypothesis is that selection imposed by life at high elevation leads to the rapid fixation of beneficial alleles in mtDNA, reflected in the increased rates of mtDNA evolution documented in many high-elevation species. However, the assumption that fast mtDNA evolution is caused by positive, rather than relaxed purifying selection has rarely been tested. Here, we calculated the |
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Language | English |
Publishing date | 2024-01-23 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Preprint |
DOI | 10.1101/2024.01.20.576402 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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