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Selfish Little Circles: Transmission Bias and Evolution of Large Deletion-Bearing Mitochondrial DNA in Caenorhabditis briggsae Nematodes

Selfish DNA poses a significant challenge to genome stability and organismal fitness in diverse eukaryotic lineages. Although selfish mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has known associations with cytoplasmic male sterility in numerous gynodioecious plant species and is manifested as petite mutants in experi...

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Autores principales: Clark, Katie A., Howe, Dana K., Gafner, Kristin, Kusuma, Danika, Ping, Sita, Estes, Suzanne, Denver, Dee R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3409194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22859984
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041433