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A Thirty Million Year-Old Inherited Heteroplasmy
Due to essentially maternal inheritance and a bottleneck effect during early oogenesis, newly arising mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations segregate rapidly in metazoan female germlines. Consequently, heteroplasmy (i.e. the mixture of mtDNA genotypes within an organism) is generally resolved to homop...
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| Formato: | Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2008
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2491557/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18698356 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002938 |