Convergent adaptation in mitochondria of phylogenetically distant birds: does it exist?
Valentina Burskaia, Ilja Artyushin, Nadezhda A. Potapova, Kirill A. Konovalov, Georgii A. Bazykin
The paper investigates whether convergent evolution occurs in mitochondrial genomes of birds under similar environmental pressures and finds most convergence events are likely random.
Genome Biology and Evolution · May 24, 2021Peer-reviewedBioinformatics