Pursuing the quest for better understanding the taxonomic distribution of the system of doubly uniparental inheritance of mtDNA

There is only one exception to strict maternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in the animal kingdom: a system named doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI), which is found in several bivalve species. Why and how such a radically different system of mitochondrial transmission evolved in bivalv...

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Main Authors: Arthur Gusman, Sophia Lecomte, Donald T. Stewart, Marco Passamonti, Sophie Breton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2016-12-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/2760.pdf