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Figure 5

From: The erratic mitochondrial clock: variations of mutation rate, not population size, affect mtDNA diversity across birds and mammals

Figure 5

Relationship between substitution rate and life-history traits. a) Body mass (log transformed and in grams), b) Maximum longevity (log transformed and in years). Open circles and dotted regression line are for mammals (n = 500), close circles and solid regression line for birds (n = 196). Substitution rates are log transformed and are in unit of substitution per third codon position per million years.

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