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Parasitism and locomotory capacity calibrate the mitogenomic evolutionary rates in Bilateria
I. Jakovlic, H. Zou, T. Ye…·D. Zhang
The paper examines mitogenomic evolutionary rates in Bilateria, finding that parasitism and reduced locomotory capacity are associated with elevated rates, explaining a significant portion of variance in branch lengths.
DOI 10.1101/2023.02.28.530434