Revisiting the African mtDNA landscape through complete mitochondrial genomes

Imke Lankheet, Afifa Chowdhury, Christian Tellgren-Roth, Cécile Jolly, André E. R. Soares, Miguel de Navascués, Sara Pacchiarotti, Lorenzo Maselli, Guy Kouarata, Jean-Pierre Donzo, Vinet Coetzee, Minique de Castro, Peter Ebbesen, Edita Priehodová, Eliška Podgorná, Viktor Černý, Susanne T. Green, Pakou Harena, Lebarama Bakrobena, Forka Leypey Mathew Fomine, Zelalem GebreMariam Tolesa, Wendawek Abebe Mengesha, Michael de Jongh, Himla Soodyall, Koen Bostoen, Chiara Barbieri, Maximilian Larena, Helena Malmström, Carina M. Schlebusch

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DOI: 10.1038/s42003-026-10330-9
Published: 2026-06-03
Container: Communications Biology
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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@article{allodium:10.1038/s42003-026-10330-9,
  title = {Revisiting the African mtDNA landscape through complete mitochondrial genomes},
  author = {Imke Lankheet and Afifa Chowdhury and Christian Tellgren-Roth and Cécile Jolly and André E. R. Soares and Miguel de Navascués and Sara Pacchiarotti and Lorenzo Maselli and Guy Kouarata and Jean-Pierre Donzo and Vinet Coetzee and Minique de Castro and Peter Ebbesen and Edita Priehodová and Eliška Podgorná and Viktor Černý and Susanne T. Green and Pakou Harena and Lebarama Bakrobena and Forka Leypey Mathew Fomine and Zelalem GebreMariam Tolesa and Wendawek Abebe Mengesha and Michael de Jongh and Himla Soodyall and Koen Bostoen and Chiara Barbieri and Maximilian Larena and Helena Malmström and Carina M. Schlebusch},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Communications Biology},
  doi = {10.1038/s42003-026-10330-9},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-026-10330-9}
}

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TY  - JOUR
TI  - Revisiting the African mtDNA landscape through complete mitochondrial genomes
AU  - Imke Lankheet
AU  - Afifa Chowdhury
AU  - Christian Tellgren-Roth
AU  - Cécile Jolly
AU  - André E. R. Soares
AU  - Miguel de Navascués
AU  - Sara Pacchiarotti
AU  - Lorenzo Maselli
AU  - Guy Kouarata
AU  - Jean-Pierre Donzo
AU  - Vinet Coetzee
AU  - Minique de Castro
AU  - Peter Ebbesen
AU  - Edita Priehodová
AU  - Eliška Podgorná
AU  - Viktor Černý
AU  - Susanne T. Green
AU  - Pakou Harena
AU  - Lebarama Bakrobena
AU  - Forka Leypey Mathew Fomine
AU  - Zelalem GebreMariam Tolesa
AU  - Wendawek Abebe Mengesha
AU  - Michael de Jongh
AU  - Himla Soodyall
AU  - Koen Bostoen
AU  - Chiara Barbieri
AU  - Maximilian Larena
AU  - Helena Malmström
AU  - Carina M. Schlebusch
PY  - 2026
JO  - Communications Biology
DO  - 10.1038/s42003-026-10330-9
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Lankheet, I., Chowdhury, A., Tellgren-Roth, C., Jolly, C., Soares, A. E. R., Navascués, M. D., Pacchiarotti, S., Maselli, L., Kouarata, G., Donzo, J., Coetzee, V., Castro, M. D., Ebbesen, P., Priehodová, E., Podgorná, E., Černý, V., Green, S. T., Harena, P., Bakrobena, L., Fomine, F. L. M., Tolesa, Z. G., Mengesha, W. A., Jongh, M. D., Soodyall, H., Bostoen, K., Barbieri, C., Larena, M., Malmström, H., & Schlebusch, C. M. (2026). Revisiting the African mtDNA landscape through complete mitochondrial genomes. Communications Biology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-026-10330-9

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