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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2010-08-01
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| Series: | BMC Research Notes |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/3/222 |