Relaxation of selective constraints on avian mitochondrial DNA following the degeneration of flight ability

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Figure 1.

Avian phylogenetic tree reconstructed from mtDNA data. A phylogenetic tree of 76 avian species was constructed from all 13 protein-coding genes from mtDNA genomes using the maximum likelihood method. Flightless birds are marked in gray.

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  1. Published in Advance July 17, 2009, doi: 10.1101/gr.093138.109 Genome Res. 19: 1760-1765

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