Contamination of Consensus Sequences in Next-Generation Mitogenomics: The Published Mitochondrial Genome of Haliastur indus Is a Chimera with DNA from Butastur indicus. Comment on Sonongbua et al. Insights into Mitochondrial Rearrangements and Selection in Accipitrid Mitogenomes, with New Data on Haliastur indus and Accipiter badius poliopsis. Genes 2024, 15, 1439

Genes, vol. 17, pp. 87

Abstract

The quality and authenticity of DNA sequences have long been points of concern for molecular biologists and systematists [...].

Authors 2

1. George Sangster corresponding Aachen Naturalis Biodiversity Center

   Naturalis Biodiversity Center

   Affiliation as printed

   Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

2. Jolanda A. Luksenburg Aachen Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML)

   Leiden University · George Mason University

   Affiliation as printed

   Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030 4444, USA

   Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 2, 2333 CC Leiden, The Netherlands