Uniparental Inheritance and Recombination as Strategies to Avoid Competition and Combat Muller’s Ratchet among Mitochondria in Natural Populations of the Fungus <i>Amanita phalloides</i>
Uniparental inheritance of mitochondria enables organisms to avoid the costs of intracellular competition among potentially selfish organelles. By preventing recombination, uniparental inheritance may also render a mitochondrial lineage effectively asexual and expose mitochondria to the deleterious...
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Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2023-04-01
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Series: | Journal of Fungi |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2309-608X/9/4/476 |