The incomplete natural history of mitochondria

By J. Ballard, M. Whitlock. Molecular Ecology, 2004

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Phylogeography of the pool frog Rana (Pelophylax) lessonae in the Italian peninsula and Sicily: multiple refugia, glacial expansions and nuclear–mitochondrial discordance (2008, background): “…genetic markers from both nuclear and mitochondrial genomes to draw reliable inferences of the evolutionary history of both species and populations, although long acknowledged (Ballard & Whitlock, 2004; Canestrelli et al., 2007a), appears still to be widely underrated in phylogeographical practice.”
Sexual selection, sexual conflict and the evolution of ageing and life span (2008, background): “The mitochondria are integral to the ageing process not least through association with reactive oxygen species pathways (Ballard & Whitlock 2004).”
Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Effective Population Size in the Endangered Rio Grande Silvery Minnow (2005, background): “For a neutrally evolving, haploid locus in a panmictic population of stable size, = 2NeIfµ, (1) where NeIf is the female inbreeding genetic effective population size and µ is the per-site mutation rate (Kingman 1982; Ballard & Whitlock 2004).”
DNA barcoding for ecologists. (2009, background): “It is well known that identical mitochondrial or chloroplast DNA sequences can be present in different related species due to introgression, or due to incomplete lineage sorting since the time of speciation [ 71 ].”
Mitochondrial DNA: more than an evolutionary bystander (2014, background): “life, but decreased survival in the laboratory (Ballard et al. 2010; Ballard & Melvin 2011). In a somewhat controversial and highly publicized study, Roubertoux et al. (2003) employed a backcrossing strategy to show that mtDNA and its interaction with the nuclear background influenced learning, expl”
Species Delimitation in Herpetology (2019, background): “A ‘‘foreign’’ mtDNA haplotype can spread throughout populations of a species, or it may result in a deep divergence of mtDNA haplotypes within a species (Ballard and Whitlock, 2004).”
Mitochondrial DNA as a marker of molecular diversity: a reappraisal (2009, background): “The reasons most often invoked to justify this choice, however, are more fundamental (Ballard & Whitlock 2004; Ballard & Rand 2005).”
Phylogeography and the conservation of coral reef fishes (2007, background): “pattern observed in some populations may not correspond to the species evolutionary history, but merely to the history of the mitochondria (Ballard and Whitlock 2004).”
Mitochondrial DNA under siege in avian phylogeography (2008, background): “Selective sweeps (Ballard & Whitlock 2004) are expected to result when a novel advantageous haplotype arises that quickly replaces all other haplotypes at that locus in the population; this will remove all previous evidence of population structure and history and replace it by a single, closely…”
Problems with mitochondrial DNA as a marker in population, phylogeographic and phylogenetic studies: the effects of inherited symbionts (2005, background): “Further to these known problems, Ballard & Whitlock (2004) have recently argued that mtDNA evolution is non-neutral with sufficient regularity to question its utility as a marker for genomic history.”
Comparing patterns of nuclear and mitochondrial divergence in a cryptic species complex: the case of Iberian and North African wall lizards (Podarcis, Lacertidae) (2007, background): “…that the achievement of monophyly is largely dependent on stochasticity (Hudson & Turelli, 2003) and by the acknowledgement of the limitations of the use of a single locus to infer evolutionary relationships (Pamilo & Nei, 1988; Zhang & Hewitt, 2003; for a review, see Ballard & Whitlock, 2004).”
The biogeography of mitochondrial and nuclear discordance in animals (2012, result): “In fact our survey, in addition to previous work (Ballard & Whitlock 2004; Ballard & Melvin 2010) suggests that selection on the mitochon- drial genome may commonly drive introgression, although few studies have tested for it.”
Discordant mitochondrial and nuclear gene phylogenies in emydid turtles: implications for speciation and conservation (2010, positive): “…alone (e.g. Hillis & Wilcox, 2005; Kozak et al., 2005; Hyman, Ho & Jermiin, 2007; Klicka, Burns & Spellman, 2007; Lemmon et al., 2007; Wilson, Schrodl & Halanych, 2009), despite various cautionary papers (e.g. Shaw, 2002; Ballard & Whitlock, 2004; Ballard & Rand, 2005; Rubinoff & Holland, 2005).”
Phylogeography of the introduced species Rattus rattus in the western Indian Ocean, with special emphasis on the colonization history of Madagascar (2010, neutral): “Nevertheless, our results require confirmation because they rely only on mitochondrial DNA, the use of which for phylogeography is under debate (Ballard & Whitlock, 2004; Zink & Barrowclough, 2008).”
The mitonuclear compatibility species concept (2017, background): “Mitochondrial genes are subject to a high mutation rate (Ballard and Whitlock 2004, Lynch 2010).”