The myth of a “typical” mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) is a rock-hard belief in the field of
genetics, at least for the animal kingdom [1]. The first complete mitochondrial genomes were …

Recently, the role of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences in taxonomy and phylogenetic
inference has become contentious, and two extreme viewpoints have emerged, although, as …

Mitochondrial DNA is the primary tool in the investigation of recent evolutionary history,
particularly for uncovering human origins and expansion. Maternal inheritance of …

The tenets underlying the use of mtDNA in phylogenetic and systematic analyses are strict
maternal inheritance, clonality, homoplasmy, and difference due to mutation: that is, there …

The mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) of Metazoa is a good model system for evolutionary
genomic studies and the availability of more than 1000 sequences provides an almost …

Inconsistencies between phylogenetic interpretations obtained from independent sources of
molecular data occasionally hamper the recovery of the true evolutionary history of certain …

Recent molecular studies addressing the phylogenetic relationships of avian orders have
had conflicting results. While studies using nuclear DNA sequences tend to support …

The sequential order of genes in animal mitochondrial DNA tends to be conserved at high
taxonomic levels. Consequently, when mitochondrial gene rearrangements occur, they can …

One of the most important aspects of mitochondrial (mt) genome evolution in Metazoa is
constancy of size and gene content of mtDNA, whose plasticity is maintained through a great …