Mitochondrial clock

Vawter, L. and W.M. Brown 1986 Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA comparisons reveal extreme rate variation in the molecular clock. Science 234 194-196. Weber, J.L and P.E. May 1989 Abundant Class of Human DNA Polymorphisms which can be Typed using the Polymerase Chain Reaction. Am,J. Hum, Genet, 44 388-396. 

Hasegawa M, Kishino H, Yano T (1985) Dating of the human-ape splitting by a molecular clock of mitochondrial DNA. J Mol Evol 26 132-147... 

Miyata T, Hayashida H, Kikuno R, Hasegawa M, Kobayashi M, Koike K (1982) Molecular clock of silent substitutions At least six fold preponderance of silent changes in mitochondrial genes over those in nuclear genes. J Mol Evol 19 28-35... 

---