The atypical presence of the paternal mitochondrial DNA in somatic tissues of male and female individuals of the blue mussel species <it>Mytilus galloprovincialis</it>

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In animals mtDNA inheritance is maternal except in certain molluscan bivalve species which have a paternally inherited mitochondrial genome (genome M) along with the standard maternal one (genome F). Normally, the paternal genome occ...

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Main Authors: Rodakis George C, Zouros Eleftherios, Kyriakou Eleni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-08-01
Series:BMC Research Notes
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/3/222