Sentence examples for mitochondrial substitutions from inspiring English sources

The mean ratio of this sample is 5.28 (+/− 3.87) chloroplast:mitochondrial substitutions.

For example, Rand et al. (2004) demonstrated that the association between nuclear and mitochondrial substitutions drives the evolutionary divergence [ 105].

The UK government's decision this February to allow mitochondrial substitution in the clinic to prevent embryos developing with mitochondrial diseases, a form of germ-line therapy, was premised on the basis that the small amount of DNA mitochondria contain is found outside the cell nucleus.

We found that by treating N. jurassica as stem Nephila or nephilid the inferred clade ages were vastly older, and the mitochondrial substitution rates much slower than expected from other empirical spider data.

We showed that mitochondrial substitution rates of Castor differed significantly from those of the other rodents in the dataset.

In our analysis of mitochondrial genomes, body mass and age at sexual maturity did not correlate significantly with mitochondrial substitution rates, although body mass did so earlier [21].

As beavers are the largest rodents for which a mitochondrial genome sequence is currently available, we explored the mitochondrial substitution rate in comparison to other rodents.

The implementation of a relaxed molecular clock enabled us to estimate mitochondrial substitution rates and to evaluate the effect of life history traits on it.

In this study we follow two goals: First we aim to estimate whether the resolution power of this standard CO1 barcoding fragment may be sufficient for Irciniidae, or whether the reduced mitochondrial substitution rates may prevent any molecular separation below genus level.

In contrast, small range sizes were unexpectedly associated with a slow-down of mitochondrial substitution rates.

Mitochondrial substitution rates are available from fossil-based studies of other insect lineages [ 73, 74].