Testing the Effect of Metabolic Rate on DNA Variability at the Intra-Specific Level

We tested the metabolic rate hypothesis (whereby rates of mtDNA evolution are postulated to be mediated primarily by mutagenic by-products of respiration) by examining whether mass-specific metabolic rate was correlated with root-to-tip distance on a set of mtDNA trees for the springtail Cryptopygus...

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Published in:PLoS ONE
Main Authors: McGaughran, Angela, Holland, Barbara R.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2010
Subjects:
Research Article
Antarctic
Antarc*
antarcticus
Cryptopygus antarcticus
Marion Island
Springtail
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2837744
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300626
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009686
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Summary:We tested the metabolic rate hypothesis (whereby rates of mtDNA evolution are postulated to be mediated primarily by mutagenic by-products of respiration) by examining whether mass-specific metabolic rate was correlated with root-to-tip distance on a set of mtDNA trees for the springtail Cryptopygus antarcticus travei from sub-Antarctic Marion Island.

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