Evaluating Purifying Selection in the Mitochondrial DNA of Various Mammalian Species

Somatic mitochondrial DNA mutations in cancer escape purifying selection and high pathogenicity mutations lead to the oncocytic phenotype: pathogenicity analysis of reported somatic mtDNA mutations in tumors

(2012) Luísa Pereira et al.   BMC CANCER

Correcting the Apparent Mutation Rate Acceleration at Shorter Time Scales under a Jukes-Cantor Model

(2012) C. Tuffley et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Ancient Voyaging and Polynesian Origins

(2011) Pedro Soares et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Comparing Phylogeny and the Predicted Pathogenicity of Protein Variations Reveals Equal Purifying Selection across the Global Human mtDNA Diversity

(2011) Luísa Pereira et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Population expansion in the North African Late Pleistocene signalled by mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6

(2011) Luísa Pereira et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Time Dependency of Molecular Evolutionary Rates? Yes and No

(2011) Sankar Subramanian et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Performance of mutation pathogenicity prediction methods on missense variants

(2011) Janita Thusberg et al.   HUMAN MUTATION

The Expansion of mtDNA Haplogroup L3 within and out of Africa

(2011) P. Soares et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Time-dependent rates of molecular evolution

(2011) SIMON Y. W. HO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Rapid, global demographic expansions after the origins of agriculture

(2011) C. R. Gignoux et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bayesian Estimation of Substitution Rates from Ancient DNA Sequences with Low Information Content

(2011) Simon Y. W. Ho et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Faunal histories from Holocene ancient DNA

(2011) Mark de Bruyn et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Complete mitochondrial genome phylogeographic analysis of killer whales (Orcinus orca) indicates multiple species

(2010) P. A. Morin et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Domestication Relaxed Selective Constraints on the Yak Mitochondrial Genome

(2010) Zhaofeng Wang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Diversity Present in 5140 Human Mitochondrial Genomes

(2009) Luísa Pereira et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Correcting for Purifying Selection: An Improved Human Mitochondrial Molecular Clock

(2009) Pedro Soares et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Automated inference of molecular mechanisms of disease from amino acid substitutions

(2009) B. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

CSA: An efficient algorithm to improve circular DNA multiple alignment

(2009) Francisco Fernandes et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Correlates of substitution rate variation in mammalian protein-coding sequences

(2009) John J Welch et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Functional annotations improve the predictive score of human disease-related mutations in proteins

(2009) Remo Calabrese et al.   HUMAN MUTATION

Temporal Trails of Natural Selection in Human Mitogenomes

(2009) S. Subramanian   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Quantitative Prediction of Molecular Clock and Ka/Ks at Short Timescales

(2009) G. I. Peterson et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Accounting for Calibration Uncertainty in Phylogenetic Estimation of Evolutionary Divergence Times

(2009) Simon Y. W. Ho et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Evaluating the mitochondrial timescale of human evolution

(2009) Phillip Endicott et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

High mitogenomic evolutionary rates and time dependency

(2009) Sankar Subramanian et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

A Bayesian Evaluation of Human Mitochondrial Substitution Rates

(2008) Phillip Endicott et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

The Dawn of Human Matrilineal Diversity

(2008) Doron M. Behar et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Correlating Bayesian date estimates with climatic events and domestication using a bovine case study

(2008) S. Y.W Ho et al.   Biology Letters

Mitochondrial genomes of extinct aurochs survive in domestic cattle

(2008) Alessandro Achilli et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Identification of mouse inbred strains through mitochondrial DNA single-nucleotide extension

(2008) Ana Goios et al.   ELECTROPHORESIS

mtDNA GeneExtractor: A computer tool for mtDNA gene/region information extraction

(2008) Fernando Freitas et al.   MITOCHONDRION

Characterizing the Time Dependency of Human Mitochondrial DNA Mutation Rate Estimates

(2008) B. M. Henn et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Evidence for Variable Selective Pressures at a Large Secondary Structure of the Human Mitochondrial DNA Control Region

(2008) F. Pereira et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Divergence Times in Caenorhabditis and Drosophila Inferred from Direct Estimates of the Neutral Mutation Rate

(2008) A. D. Cutter   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Effect of Inappropriate Calibration: Three Case Studies in Molecular Ecology

(2008) Simon Y. W. Ho et al.   PLoS One

Rapid molecular evolution in a living fossil

(2008) Jennifer M. Hay et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

mtDNA Variation Predicts Population Size in Humans and Reveals a Major Southern Asian Chapter in Human Prehistory

(2007) Q. D. Atkinson et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION