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An unusual case of gender-associated mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy: the mytilid Musculista senhousia (Mollusca Bivalvia)

BACKGROUND: Doubly Uniparental Inheritance (DUI) represents the most outstanding exception to matrilinear inheritance of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), typical of Metazoa. In a few bivalve mollusks, two sex-linked mtDNAs (the so-called M and F) are inherited in a peculiar way: both daughters and sons re...

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Autor principal: Passamonti, Marco
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central|1 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1963476/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17767735
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-S2-S7