Clonal inheritance of avian mitochondrial DNA

Sofia Berlin and Hans Ellegren ()
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Sofia Berlin: Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University
Hans Ellegren: Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University

Nature, 2001, vol. 413, issue 6851, 37-38

Abstract: Abstract We have taken a new approach to test the commonly accepted, but recently questioned, principle1,2 of clonal inheritance of vertebrate mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) by relating its inheritance to a female-specific marker of nuclear DNA. Whereas this is impossible in organisms with male heterogamy (such as mammals), we show here that genealogies of mtDNA and the female-specific W chromosome of a bird species are completely concordant. Our results indicate that inheritance of mtDNA is free of detectable recombination effects over an evolutionary timescale.

Date: 2001
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