Allan C. Wilson

Mitochondrial DNA sequences of primates: Tempo and mode of evolution

Flow of mitochondrial DNA across a species boundary.

Restriction analysis shows that wild Scandinavian mice belonging to the species Mus musculus contain the mitochondrial DNA of a neighboring species, M. domesticus. This demonstr...

Evolutionary tree for apes and humans based on cleavage maps of mitochondrial DNA.

The high rate of evolution of mitochondrial DNA makes this molecule suitable for genealogical research on such closely related species as humans and apes. Because previous appro...

Extensive polymorphism in the mitochondrial DNA of apes.

Ape species are 2-10 times more variable than the human species with respect to the nucleotide sequence of mtDNA, even though ape populations have been smaller than the human po...