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How can we determine or find the insertion time of Numts?

I am using mtDNA PacBio data and I have data from different species based on location. I used the BLAST command to find Numts, and according to a rough estimate, there are about 9K Numts in some species and about 8K in others. My question is, how can we determine the insertion time of these Numts?

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1 answer

See "Estimating the ages of NUMTs" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05288-7#Sec10

which points to: https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/42/20/12640/2902626

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