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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Main Authors: Yen-Wen Wang, Holly Elmore, Anne Pringle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-04-01
Series:Journal of Fungi
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2309-608X/9/4/476