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This study investigates apparent mitochondrial heteroplasmy in Thalassarche albatrosses, revealing that the source is a duplicated control region rather than true heteroplasmy or nuclear copies of mitochondrial DNA. The two control regions are similar but not identical, and phylogenetic analyses indicate they evolve largely in concert with some independent evolution. The findings suggest that such duplications may be widespread in Procellariiformes and should be considered in future evolutionary studies of
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