Animal mitochondrial genomes have high rates of sequence evolution, and should decay from the accumulation of deleterious mutations. But the purging of mutant mtDNAs in a pedigree of "mutator mice" reveals the speed and power of purifying selection to maintain mitochondrial function.
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