HUMAN MITOCHONDRIAL DNA VARIATION AND EVOLUTION: ANALYSIS OF NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES FROM SEVEN INDIVIDUALS

Mathematical model for studying genetic variation in terms of restriction endonucleases.

1979 • 10,442 citations

Sequence and organization of the human mitochondrial genome

1981 • 9,348 citations

Complete sequence of bovine mitochondrial DNA conserved features of the mammalian mitochondrial genome

1982 • 1,491 citations

Estimation of evolutionary distances between homologous nucleotide sequences.

1981 • 1,076 citations

Human fetal gγ- and Aγ-globin genes: Complete nucleotide sequences suggest that DNA can be exchanged between these duplicated genes

1980 • 947 citations

Complementary base pairing and the origin of substitution mutations

1976 • 835 citations

Polymorphism in mitochondrial DNA of humans as revealed by restriction endonuclease analysis.

1980 • 485 citations

An improved method for determining codon variability in a gene and its application to the rate of fixation of mutations in evolution

1970 • 469 citations

Patterns of nucleotide substitution in pseudogenes and functional genes

1982 • 460 citations

Mitochondrial DNA polymorphism in a maternal lineage of Holstein cows.

1982 • 370 citations

Mitochondrial DNA clones and matriarchal phylogeny within and among geographic populations of the pocket gopher, Geomys pinetis.

1979 • 330 citations

Intraspecific nucleotide sequence variability surrounding the origin of replication in human mitochondrial DNA

1983 • 268 citations

Comparison of Total Sequence of a Cloned Rabbit β-Globin Gene and Its Flanking Regions with a Homologous Mouse Sequence

1979 • 256 citations

Mapping of mitochondrial DNA of individual sheep and goats: Rapid evolution in the D loop region

1977 • 250 citations

Nucleotide sequence divergence and functional constraint in mRNA evolution.

1980 • 249 citations

Fidelity of Mammalian DNA Polymerases

1981 • 180 citations

Critical experimental test of the possibility of "paternal leakage" of mitochondrial DNA.

1983 • 172 citations

EXTENSIVE GENETIC VARIATION IN MITOCHONDRIAL DNA'S AMONG GEOGRAPHIC POPULATIONS OF THE DEER MOUSE,PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS

1983 • 159 citations

Specific cleavage analysis of mammalian mitochondrial DNA.

1975 • 113 citations

Biases of the estimates of DNA divergence obtained by the restriction enzyme technique

1982 • 93 citations

Higher frequencies of transitions among point mutations

1977 • 90 citations

Inter- and intraspecific variation in restriction maps of Drosophila mitochondrial DNAs

1979 • 82 citations

MECHANISMS OF EVOLUTION IN ANIMAL MITOCHONDRIAL DNA

1981 • 77 citations

Allelic forms of rat κ chain genes: Evidence for strong selection at the level of nucleotide sequence

1981 • 76 citations

ESTIMATING GENETIC VARIABILITY WITH RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASES

1982 • 76 citations

Estimating the total number of nucleotide substitutions since the common ancestor of a pair of homologous genes: Comparison of several methods and three beta hemoglobin messenger RNA's

1980 • 75 citations

A small polyadenylated RNA (7 S RNA), containing a putative ribosome attachment site, maps near the origin of human mitochondrial DNA replication

1981 • 68 citations

Estimation of phylogenetic relationships from DNA restriction patterns and selection of endonuclease cleavage sites.

1982 • 61 citations

A mathematical model of extranuclear genes and the genetic variability maintained in a finite population

1981 • 55 citations

Sequence homology between mitochondrial DNAs of different eukaryotes

1975 • 37 citations

Theoretical foundations for quantitative paleogenetics

1980 • 34 citations

A method for estimating rates of nucleotide substitution using DNA sequence data

1982 • 14 citations

An improved method for estimating sequence divergence of DNA using restriction endonuclease mappings

1981 • 13 citations