The Complete Female- and Male-Transmitted Mitochondrial Genome of Meretrix lamarckii.

Bivalve mitochondrial genomes show many uncommon features, like additional genes, high rates of gene rearrangement, high A-T content. Moreover, Doubly Uniparental Inheritance (DUI) is a distinctive inheritance mechanism allowing some bivalves to maintain and transmit two separate sex-linked mitochon...

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Main Authors: Stefano Bettinazzi, Federico Plazzi, Marco Passamonti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4833323?pdf=render