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The atypical presence of the paternal mitochondrial DNA in somatic tissues of male and female individuals of the blue mussel species Mytilus galloprovincialis

BACKGROUND: In animals mtDNA inheritance is maternal except in certain molluscan bivalve species which have a paternally inherited mitochondrial genome (genome M) along with the standard maternal one (genome F). Normally, the paternal genome occurs in the male gonad, but it can be often found, as a...

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Autores principales: Kyriakou, Eleni, Zouros, Eleftherios, Rodakis, George C
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2924344/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20691065
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-3-222