The Old World Sparrows (Genus Passer) Phylogeography and Their Relative Abundance of Nuclear mtDNA Pseudogenes

@article{Allende2001TheOW,
  title={The Old World Sparrows (Genus Passer) Phylogeography and Their Relative Abundance of Nuclear mtDNA Pseudogenes},
  author={Luis M Allende and Isabel Rubio and Valent{\'i}n Ruiz-del-Valle and J. Guill{\'e}n and J Martinez-Laso and Ernesto Lowy and Pilar Varela and Jorge Zamora and Antonio Arnaiz-Villena},
  journal={Journal of Molecular Evolution},
  year={2001},
  volume={53},
  pages={144-154}
}
The phylogenetic relationships of genus Passer (Old World sparrows) have been studied with species covering their complete world living range. Mitochondrial (mt) cyt b genes and pseudogenes have been analyzed, the latter being strikingly abundant in genus Passer compared with other studied songbirds. The significance of these Passer pseudogenes is presently unclear. The mechanisms by which mt cyt b genes become pseudogenes after nuclear translocation are discussed together with their mode of… 
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