Reply to Sangster, G.; Luksenburg, J.A. Contamination of Consensus Sequences in Next-Generation Mitogenomics: The Published Mitochondrial Genome of <i>Haliastur indus</i> Is a Chimera with DNA from <i>Butastur indicus</i>. Comment on "Sonongbua et al. Insights into Mitochondrial Rearrangements and Selection in Accipitrid Mitogenomes, with New Data on <i>Haliastur indus</i> and <i>Accipiter badius poliopsis</i>. <i>Genes</i> 2024, <i&
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We thank Dr. George Sangster and Dr. Jolanda A. Luksenburg for their careful assessment concerning the mitochondrial genome sequence of <i>Haliastur indus</i> (GenBank accession number: OP133375.1) [...].