Molecular Biology and Evolution 2008 25(4):795; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn033
Published by Oxford University Press 2008.
Extreme Variation of mtDNA Neutral Substitution Rate across Mammalian Species - the Longevity Hypothesis
Mol. Biol. Evol. 25:120–130. 2008. doi:10.1093/molbev/msm248
Numerical values in the last paragraph of the Results section (p.124) are false. The paragraph should read :"Mitochondrial lineage-specific substitution rates were estimated from amino-acid sequences for comparative purposes. Non-synonymous and third codon position substitution rates were well correlated (R2 = 0.442, p-val < 0.0001). The median estimated rate was 0.002 amino-acid substitution per site per million year. The Rodentia average was 0.0044 i.e.
10 times faster than in Lagomorpha (0.0004). This shows that non-synonymous substitution rates are less variable between mammalian lineages than synonymous substitution rates."
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