ReviewGigaScience2016
Mitochondrial metagenomics: letting the genes out of the bottle.
Review in GigaScience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.
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43 citing papers in PubMed.
- Bioinformatics of Combined Nuclear and Mitochondrial Phylogenomics to Define Key Nodes for the Classification of Coleoptera.Systematic biology · 2026Article
- ChloroScan: Recovering Plastid Genome Bins From Metagenomic Data.Molecular ecology resources · 2026Article
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- Mining for Mitochondria: 68 Mitogenomes for Wrasses and Parrotfishes (F: Labridae) From Off-Target UCE Data.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Mitochondrial Gene Phylogenetic Incongruencies Are Linked to Chromosomal Position and Function.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
- A genomic perspective on fungal diversity and evolution.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2025Review
- The first complete mitochondrial genome sequences of an ancient orphan evolutionary lineage of Eumolpinae leaf beetles endemic to the South Pacific.BMC genomics · 2025Article
- Mitochondrial genome of Bactrocera fruit flies (Tephritidae: Dacini): features, structure, and significance for diagnosis.BMC genomics · 2025Article
- Tracing non-fungal eukaryotic diversity via shotgun metagenomes in the complex mudflat intertidal zones.mSystems · 2025Article
- Complete Mitochondrial Genome ofBiology · 2025Article
- Eyeing DNA barcoding for species identification of fish larvae.Journal of fish biology · 2024Article
- Partial and complete sequence of small and large subunit ribosomal RNA genes, tRNA-Val gene in some species of family Labridae.Open veterinary journal · 2024Article
- Towards holistic insect monitoring: species discovery, description, identification and traits for all insects.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
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- Mitochondrial Genome Fragmentation Occurred Multiple Times Independently in Bird Lice of the Families Menoponidae and Laemobothriidae.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Nanopore adaptive sampling for targeted mitochondrial genome sequencing and bloodmeal identification in hematophagous insects.Parasites & vectors · 2023Article
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- Developing the Protocol Infrastructure for DNA Sequencing Natural History Collections.Biodiversity data journal · 2023Article
- Another crack in the Dark Taxa wall: a custom DNA barcoding protocol for the species-rich and common Eurytomidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea).Biodiversity data journal · 2023Article
- Analysis of the HolarcticInsects · 2022Article
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Abstract
'Mitochondrial metagenomics' (MMG) is a methodology for shotgun sequencing of total DNA from specimen mixtures and subsequent bioinformatic extraction of mitochondrial sequences. The approach can be applied to phylogenetic analysis of taxonomically selected taxa, as an economical alternative to mitogenome sequencing from individual species, or to environmental samples of mixed specimens, such as from mass trapping of invertebrates. The routine generation of mitochondrial genome sequences has great potential both for systematics and community phylogenetics. Mapping of reads from low-coverage shotgun sequencing of environmental samples also makes it possible to obtain data on spatial and temporal turnover in whole-community phylogenetic and species composition, even in complex ecosystems where species-level taxonomy and biodiversity patterns are poorly known. In addition, read mapping can produce information on species biomass, and potentially allows quantification of within-species genetic variation. The success of MMG relies on the formation of numerous mitochondrial genome contigs, achievable with standard genome assemblers, but various challenges for the efficiency of assembly remain, particularly in the face of variable relative species abundance and intra-specific genetic variation. Nevertheless, several studies have demonstrated the power of mitogenomes from MMG for accurate phylogenetic placement, evolutionary analysis of species traits, biodiversity discovery and the establishment of species distribution patterns; it offers a promising avenue for unifying the ecological and evolutionary understanding of species diversity.
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