Mitochondrial cytochrome b (cytb) is among the most extensively sequenced genes to date
across the vertebrates. Here, we employ nearly 2,000 cytb gene sequences from GenBank …

Levels of sequence variation in mitochondrial cytochrome-b gene were examined to
ascertain if this molecule can provide a reference point in making decisions concerning …

A large number of studies in evolutionary biology utilize phylogenetic information obtained
from mitochondrial DNA. Researchers place trust in this molecule and expect it generally to …

Genetic divergence estimates using p-distances and similar measures were generated for
20,731 vertebrate and invertebrate animal species. The results of this analysis demonstrate …

Differential rates of nucleotide substitution among different gene segments and between
distinct evolutionary lineages is well documented among mitochondrial genes and is likely a …

▪ Abstract Many uses of gene trees implicitly assume that nominal species are monophyletic
in their alleles at the study locus. However, in well-sampled gene trees, certain alleles in one …

We have sequenced the complete mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b gene from 18 species of
the subfamily Caprinae and two outgroup taxa. Additional sequences retrieved from the …

Variation in the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene (nucleotide and amino acid sequences) is
evaluated for 9 genera and 15 species of American opossums in the family Didelphidae …

Molecular markers increasingly are employed to estimate population genetic parameters of
relevance to conservation biology, such as within-population heterozygosity, between …

Mitochondrial genomes are being used to study increasingly ancient divergences among
animal groups. Recent studies of complete mitochondrial DNA sequences have arrived at …