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Temperature-Sensitive Reproduction and the Physiological and Evolutionary Potential for Mother’s Curse

Strict maternal transmission of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is hypothesized to permit the accumulation of mitochondrial variants that are deleterious to males but not females, a phenomenon called mother’s curse. However, direct evidence that mtDNA mutations exhibit such sexually antagonistic fitness e...

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Autores principales: Montooth, Kristi L, Dhawanjewar, Abhilesh S, Meiklejohn, Colin D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6797906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31173136
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/icz091