Chen YC, Vendrami DLJ, Huber ML, Handel LEY, Cooney CR, Hoffman JI, Gossmann TI.

Diverse evolutionary trajectories of mitocoding DNA in mammalian and avian nuclear genomes.

Genome Res. 2025 Jun 2;35(6):1313-1324. doi:10.1101/gr.279428.124

“we demonstrate that many mitochondrial-coding NUMTs exhibit signs of long-term selection”