Environmental Factors Can Influence Mitochondrial Inheritance in the Saccharomyces Yeast Hybrids.

Mitochondria play a critical role in the generation of metabolic energy and are crucial for eukaryotic cell survival and proliferation. In most sexual eukaryotes, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is inherited from only one parent in non-Mendelian inheritance in contrast to the inheritance of nuclear DNA. T...

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Main Authors: Yu-Yi Hsu, Jui-Yu Chou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5231273?pdf=render