nrDNA:mtDNA copy number ratios as a comparative metric for evolutionary and conservation genetics

• Published in: Heredity
• Main Author: Goodall-Copestake, William Paul
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Springer International Publishing 2018
• Subjects: Article; Elephant Island; Gough; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6039500/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29752470; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-018-0088-8

Identifying genetic cues of functional relevance is key to understanding the drivers of evolution and increasingly important for the conservation of biodiversity. This study introduces nuclear ribosomal DNA (nrDNA) to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copy number ratios as a metric with which to screen for...