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Biology

Brigham Young University

2008

Pseudogenes

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Many Species In One: Dna Barcoding Overestimates The Number Of Species When Nuclear Mitochondrial Pseudogenes Are Coamplified, Michael F. Whiting, Hojun Song, Keith A. Crandall, Jennifer E. Buhay Sep 2008

Many Species In One: Dna Barcoding Overestimates The Number Of Species When Nuclear Mitochondrial Pseudogenes Are Coamplified, Michael F. Whiting, Hojun Song, Keith A. Crandall, Jennifer E. Buhay

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Nuclear mitochondrial pseudogenes (numts) are nonfunctional copies of mtDNA in the nucleus that have been found in major clades of eukaryotic organisms.