Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Phylonumtomics uncovers diverse evolutionary trajectories of mitogenomic fossils buried in mammalian and avian genomes
Yu‐Chi Chen, David L. J. Vendrami, Maximilian L. Huber…·Toni Ingolf Gossmann
The paper identifies NUMTs with intact mitochondrial reading frames in mammalian and avian genomes, showing evidence of introgression in birds and selection in both groups, with some NUMTs showing signs of adaptive evolution.