Ghost mtDNA haplotypes generated by fortuitous NUMTs can deeply disturb infra-specific genetic diversity and phylogeographic pattern

Mitochondrial DNA haplotypes indicate two postglacial re-colonization routes of the spruce bark beetleIps typographusthrough northern Europe to Scandinavia

(2014) François Mayer et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Development of 12 microsatellites loci for the longhorn beetle Monochamus galloprovincialis (Coleoptera Cerambycidae), vector of the Pine Wood Nematode in Europe

(2014) Julien Haran et al.   Conservation Genetics Resources

Insect Mitochondrial Genomics: Implications for Evolution and Phylogeny

(2013) Stephen L. Cameron   Annual Review of Entomology

Evolutionary relationships within EuropeanMonochamus(Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) highlight the role of altitude in species delineation

(2013) Fotini A. Koutroumpa et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Presence of nuclear copies of mitochondrial origin (NUMTs) in two related species of stingless bee genusMelipona(Hymenoptera: Meliponini)

(2013) Carlos Ruiz et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

(2013) Koichiro Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Mitogenome sequences stabilize the phylogenetics of weevils (Curculionoidea) and establish the monophyly of larval ectophagy

(2013) Julien Haran et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Characterisation of full-length mitochondrial copies and partial nuclear copies (numts) of the cytochrome b and cytochrome c oxidase subunit I genes of Toxoplasma gondii, Neospora caninum, Hammondia heydorni and Hammondia triffittae (Apicomplexa: Sarcocystidae)

(2013) Bjørn Gjerde   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Nuclear mitochondrial DNA: an Achilles’ heel of molecular systematics, phylogenetics, and phylogeographic studies of stingless bees

(2012) Maykon P. Cristiano et al.   APIDOLOGIE

GenAlEx 6.5: genetic analysis in Excel. Population genetic software for teaching and research--an update

(2012) R. Peakall et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Selective Enrichment and Sequencing of Whole Mitochondrial Genomes in the Presence of Nuclear Encoded Mitochondrial Pseudogenes (Numts)

(2012) Jonci N. Wolff et al.   PLoS One

Pseudogenes as Weaknesses of ACTB (Actb) and GAPDH (Gapdh) Used as Reference Genes in Reverse Transcription and Polymerase Chain Reactions

(2012) Yuan Sun et al.   PLoS One

Hit or miss in phylogeographic analyses: the case of the cryptic NUMTs

(2011) CORALIE BERTHEAU et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Uncovering cryptic species diversity of a termite community in a West African savanna

(2011) Barbara Hausberger et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Incidence of the pinewood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophlius Steiner & Buhrer, 1934 (Nickle, 1970) in Spain

(2011) Lee Robertson et al.   NEMATOLOGY

Environmental Barcoding: A Next-Generation Sequencing Approach for Biomonitoring Applications Using River Benthos

(2011) Mehrdad Hajibabaei et al.   PLoS One

Mitochondrial COI gene transfers to the nuclear genome of Dendroctonus valens and its implications

(2010) Y. Cai et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

Preventing the pollution of mitochondrial datasets with nuclear mitochondrial paralogs (numts)

(2010) Sébastien Calvignac et al.   MITOCHONDRION

Nuclear–Mitochondrial Sequences as Witnesses of Past Interbreeding and Population Diversity in the Jumping Bristletail Mesomachilis

(2010) Laura Baldo et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Assessing the effects of primer specificity on eliminating numt coamplification in DNA barcoding: a case study from Orthoptera (Arthropoda: Insecta)

(2010) MATTHEW J. MOULTON et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Nuclear insertions and heteroplasmy of mitochondrial DNA as two sources of intra-individual genomic variation in grasshoppers

(2010) KARINE BERTHIER et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

When phylogenetic assumptions are violated: base compositional heterogeneity and among-site rate variation in beetle mitochondrial phylogenomics

(2010) HOJUN SONG et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Mitochondrial phylogenies in the light of pseudogenes and Wolbachia: re-assessment of a bark beetle dataset

(2010) Wolfgang Arthofer et al.   ZooKeys

Mitochondrial pseudogenes in the nuclear genome of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes: implications for past and future population genetic studies

(2009) Thaung Hlaing et al.   BMC GENETICS

Abundant nuclear copies of mitochondrial origin (NUMTs) in theAedes aegyptigenome

(2009) W. C. Black IV et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

“COI-like” Sequences Are Becoming Problematic in Molecular Systematic and DNA Barcoding Studies

(2009) Jennifer E. Buhay   JOURNAL OF CRUSTACEAN BIOLOGY

Mitochondrial DNA as a marker of molecular diversity: a reappraisal

(2009) N. GALTIER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Phylogeography’s past, present, and future: 10 years after Avise, 2000

(2009) M.J. Hickerson et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Incorporation of mitochondrial fragments in the nuclear genome (Numts) of the longhorned beetleMonochamus galloprovincialis(Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)

(2008) F. A. Koutroumpa et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Many species in one: DNA barcoding overestimates the number of species when nuclear mitochondrial pseudogenes are coamplified

(2008) H. Song et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA