Presence of male mitochondria in somatic tissues and their functional importance at the whole animal level in the marine bivalve Arctica islandica

Dégletagne et al. report on an unusual case of doubly uniparental inheritance in the ocean quahog, Arctica isladica. Some individuals in an Icelandic population present homoplasmic presence of male-type mitochondrial genes in somatic tissues, which appears to confer some changes in respiratory capac...

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Main Authors: Cyril Dégletagne, Doris Abele, Gernot Glöckner, Benjamin Alric, Heike Gruber, Christoph Held
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-09-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02593-1