Forty million years of independent evolution: a mitochondrial gene and its corresponding nuclear pseudogene in primates

J Schmitz, O Piskurek, H Zischler - Journal of Molecular Evolution, 2005 - Springer
Sequences from nuclear mitochondrial pseudogenes (numts) that originated by transfer of
genetic information from mitochondria to the nucleus offer a unique opportunity to compare …

The Complete Mitochondrial Sequence of Tarsius bancanus: Evidence for an Extensive Nucleotide Compositional Plasticity of Primate Mitochondrial DNA

J Schmitz, M Ohme, H Zischler - Molecular Biology and …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Inconsistencies between phylogenetic interpretations obtained from independent sources of
molecular data occasionally hamper the recovery of the true evolutionary history of certain …

Mitochondrial DNA sequences of primates: tempo and mode of evolution

WM Brown, EM Prager, A Wang, AC Wilson - Journal of molecular …, 1982 - Springer
We cloned and sequenced a segment of mitochondrial DNA from human, chimpanzee,
gorilla, orangutan, and gibbon. This segment is 896 bp in length, contains the genes for …

Nuclear insertions help and hinder inference of the evolutionary history of gorilla mtDNA

O Thalmann, D Serre, M Hofreiter, D Lukas… - Molecular …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Numts are fragments of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) that have been translocated to the
nucleus, where they can persist while their mitochondrial counterparts continue to rapidly …

Molecular phylogeny and evolution of primate mitochondrial DNA.

K Hayasaka, T Gojobori, S Horai - Molecular Biology and …, 1988 - academic.oup.com
We determined nucleotide sequences of homologous 0.9-kb fragments of mitochondrial
DNAs (mtDNAs) derived from four species of old-world monkeys, one species of new-world …

Sequence evolution of mitochondrial DNA in humans and chimpanzees: control region and a protein-coding region

TD Kocher, AC Wilson - Evolution of life: fossils, molecules, and culture, 1991 - Springer
Complete primary structures for the major non-coding region of 13 human and two
chimpanzee mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNAs) were determined by direct sequencing via the …

Evolutionary Dynamics of Large Numts in the Human Genome: Rarity of Independent Insertions and Abundance of Post-Insertion Duplications

E Hazkani-Covo, R Sorek, D Graur - Journal of molecular evolution, 2003 - Springer
We determined the phylogenetic positions of 82 large nuclear pseudogenes of
mitochondrial origin (numts) within the human genome. For each numt, two possibilities …

A novel mitochondrial DNA-like sequence in the human nuclear genome

C Herrnstadt, W Clevenger, SS Ghosh, C Anderson… - Genomics, 1999 - Elsevier
We describe here a nuclear mitochondrial DNA-like sequence (numtDNA) that is nearly
identical in sequence to a continuous 5842 bp segment of human mitochondrial DNA …

Mitochondrial COII Introgression into the Nuclear Genome of Gorilla gorilla

WK Chung, ME Steiper - International journal of primatology, 2008 - Springer
Numts are nonfunctional mitochondrial sequences that have translocated into nuclear DNA,
where they evolve independently from the original mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence …

Structure and chromosomal distribution of human mitochondrial pseudogenes

Y Tourmen, O Baris, P Dessen, C Jacques, Y Malthièry… - Genomics, 2002 - Elsevier
Nuclear mitochondrial pseudogenes (Numts) have been found in the genome of many
eukaryote species, including humans. Using a BLAST approach, we found 1105 DNA …