Assessing the fitness consequences of mitonuclear interactions in natural populations

GE Hill, JC Havird, DB Sloan, RS Burton… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Metazoans exist only with a continuous and rich supply of chemical energy from oxidative
phosphorylation in mitochondria. The oxidative phosphorylation machinery that mediates …

Mitochondrial DNA as a molecular marker in insect ecology: Current status and future prospects

Z Dong, Y Wang, C Li, L Li, X Men - Annals of the Entomological …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Molecular techniques are powerful tools that can address many research problems in insect
ecology. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is a widely used molecular marker. It is easy to use …

Mitonuclear coevolution as the genesis of speciation and the mitochondrial DNA barcode gap

GE Hill - Ecology and evolution, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Mitochondrial genes are widely used in taxonomy and systematics because high mutation
rates lead to rapid sequence divergence and because such changes have long been …

Positive and purifying selection in mitochondrial genomes of a bird with mitonuclear discordance

HE Morales, A Pavlova, L Joseph… - Molecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Diversifying selection on metabolic pathways can reduce intraspecific gene flow and
promote population divergence. An opportunity to explore this arises from mitonuclear …

Experimental Support That Natural Selection Has Shaped the Latitudinal Distribution of Mitochondrial Haplotypes in Australian Drosophila melanogaster

MF Camus, JN Wolff, CM Sgrò… - Molecular Biology and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Cellular metabolism is regulated by enzyme complexes within the mitochondrion, the
function of which are sensitive to the prevailing temperature. Such thermal sensitivity …

Mitonuclear ecology

GE Hill - Molecular biology and evolution, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Eukaryotes were born of a chimeric union between two prokaryotes—the progenitors of the
mitochondrial and nuclear genomes. Early in eukaryote evolution, most mitochondrial genes …

[PDF][PDF] MtDNA: The small workhorse of evolutionary studies

R DeSalle, B Schierwater, H Hadrys - Front Biosci, 2017 - researchgate.net
The double-stranded, circular mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is present in all eukaryotic
life forms, was initially discovered and characterized in the last century and has been widely …

Selection in coral mitogenomes, with insights into adaptations in the deep sea

NI Ramos, DM DeLeo, J Horowitz, CS McFadden… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Corals are a dominant benthic fauna that occur across a vast range of depths from just
below the ocean's surface to the abyssopelagic zone. However, little is known about the …

Integrative approaches for studying mitochondrial and nuclear genome co-evolution in oxidative phosphorylation

P Sunnucks, HE Morales, AM Lamb, A Pavlova… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
In animals, interactions among gene products of mitochondrial and nuclear genomes
(mitonuclear interactions) are of profound fitness, evolutionary, and ecological significance …

Complete mitochondrial genomes reveal robust phylogenetic signals and evidence of positive selection in horseshoe bats

L Zhang, K Sun, G Csorba, AC Hughes, L Jin… - BMC Ecology and …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background In genus Rhinolophus, species in the Rhinolophus philippinensis and
R. macrotis groups are unique because the horseshoe bats in these group have relatively …