The fragility of marriage in matrilineal societies by Parkin, R

“…Matrilineal descent and the societies that have it have long been seen as being more in need of explanation than patrilineal descent, which tends to be treated as humanity's default when discussing descent. …”

Note on oblique exchange in a matrilineal society in the Comoro Islands by Parkin, R

Gatekeeping girls’ access to education: an exploration of matrilineal relationships, gatekeepers, and contentions at the micro-household-level by Akuffo, AG

“…In this paper, I draw on qualitative interviews and autobiographical narratives of 15 women from matrilineal societies to explore answers to the question: How did gatekeeping shape gendered pathways to education access for women born between 1917 and 1957? …”

Lineal kinship organization in cross-specific perspective. by Fortunato, L

“…Overall, I propose a shift in focus-from viewing matrilineal and patrilineal kinship as unitary phenomena, to consideration of the different aspects of the social system featuring a bias towards lineally related kin. …”

Mitochondrial DNA from prehistoric canids highlights relationships between dogs and South-East European wolves. by Verginelli, F, Capelli, C, Coia, V, Musiani, M, Falchetti, M, Ottini, L, Palmirotta, R, Tagliacozzo, A, De Grossi Mazzorin, I, Mariani-Costantini, R

“…Phylogenetic investigations highlighted relationships between the ancient sequences and geographically widespread extant dog matrilines and between the ancient sequences and extant wolf matrilines of mainly East European origin. …”

Indonesia against the trend? Ageing and inter-generational wealth flows in two Indonesian communities by Kreager, P, Schröder-Butterfill, E

“…Indonesian family systems do not conform to the prevailing image of Asian families, the predominant arrangements being nuclear and bilateral, with an important matrilineal minority. This paper considers the strength of family ties in two communities, focussing particularly on inter-generational flows of support to and from older members. …”

DNA barcoding and the identification of tree frogs (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) by Dang, N-X, Sun, F-H, Lv, Y-Y, Zhao, B-H, Wang, J-C, Murphy, RW, Wang, W-Z, Li, J-T

“…Phenetic neighbor joining and phylogenetic Bayesian inference were used to construct phylogenetic trees, which resolved all nine genera as monophyletic taxa except for Rhacophorus, two new matrilines for Liuixalus, and Polypedates leucomystax species complex. …”

Ancient mitogenomes from Pre-Pottery Neolithic Central Anatolia and the effects of a Late Neolithic bottleneck in sheep (Ovis aries) by Sandoval-Castellanos, E, Hare, AJ, Lin, AT, Dimopoulos, EA, Daly, KG, Geiger, S, Mullin, VE, Wiechmann, I, Mattiangeli, V, Lühken, G, Zinovieva, NA, Zidarov, P, Çakırlar, C, Stoddart, S, Orton, D, Bulatović, J, Mashkour, M, Sauer, EW, Kolska Horwitz, L, Horejs, B, Atici, L, Özkaya, V, Mullville, J, Parker Pearson, M, Mainland, I, Card, N, Brown, L, Sharples, N, Griffiths, D, Allen, D, Arbuckle, B, Abell, JT, Duru, G, Mentzer, SM, Munro, ND, Uzdurum, M, Gülçur, S, Buitenhuis, H, Gladyr, E, Stiner, MC, Pöllath, N, Özbaşaran, M, Krebs, S, Burger, J, Frantz, L, Medugorac, I, Bradley, DG, Peters, J

“…The mitochondrial genetic makeup that emerged was carried from the core region of early Neolithic sheep management into Europe and dominates the matrilineal diversity of both its ancient and the billion-strong modern sheep populations.…”

A model for genomic imprinting in the social brain: Elders by Úbeda, F, Gardner, A

“…The most widely accepted theory for the evolution of genomic imprinting-the kinship theory-argues that conflict between maternally inherited and paternally inherited genes over phenotypes with asymmetric effects on matrilineal and patrilineal kin results in self-imposed silencing of one of the copies. …”

A model for genomic imprinting in the social brain: elders. by Úbeda, F, Gardner, A

“…The most widely accepted theory for the evolution of genomic imprinting-the kinship theory-argues that conflict between maternally inherited and paternally inherited genes over phenotypes with asymmetric effects on matrilineal and patrilineal kin results in self-imposed silencing of one of the copies. …”

Unique matrix structure in the rough endoplasmic reticulum cisternae of pseudoachondroplasia chondrocytes. by Merritt, T, Bick, R, Poindexter, B, Alcorn, J, Hecht, J

“…Type IX collagen and matrilin-3 (MATN3), also accumulate in the rER cisternae of PSACH chondrocytes, but it is unknown how mutant COMP interacts with these proteins. …”

Expression of mutant cartilage oligomeric matrix protein in human chondrocytes induces the pseudoachondroplasia phenotype. by Merritt, T, Alcorn, J, Haynes, R, Hecht, J

“…Mutant COMP expressed in normal cells was retained in enlarged rER cisternae, which also retained IX collagen (COL9) and matrilin-3 (MATN3). Although these proteins were secreted normally into the ECM of the wt-COMP nodules, reduced secretion of these proteins was observed in nodules composed of cells transfected with mt-COMP. …”

A model for genomic imprinting in the social brain: adults. by Ubeda, F, Gardner, A

“…The most widely accepted theory for the evolution of genomic imprinting-the kinship theory-argues that conflict between maternally inherited and paternally inherited genes over phenotypes with asymmetric effects on matrilineal and patrilineal kin results in self-imposed silencing of one of the copies. …”

Genetic structure correlates with ethnolinguistic diversity in eastern and southern Africa by Atkinson, EG, Dalvie, S, Pichkar, Y, Kalungi, A, Majara, L, Stevenson, A, Abebe, T, Akena, D, Alemayehu, M, Ashaba, FK, Atwoli, L, Baker, M, Chibnik, LB, Creanza, N, Daly, MJ, Fekadu, A, Gelaye, B, Gichuru, S, Injera, WE, James, R, Kariuki, SM, Kigen, G, Koen, N, Koenen, KC, Koenig, Z, Kwobah, E, Kyebuzibwa, J, Musinguzi, H, Mwema, RM, Neale, BM, Newman, CP, Newton, CRJC, Ongeri, L, Ramachandran, S, Ramesar, R, Shiferaw, W, Stein, DJ, Stroud, RE, Teferra, S, Yohannes, MT, Zingela, Z, Martin, AR

“…We find suggestive evidence for the rate of language transmission in matrilineal groups having been higher than that for patrilineal ones. …”

Group membership, geography and shared ancestry: Genetic variation in the Basotho of Lesotho by Montinaro, F, Davies, J, Capelli, C

“…Across human societies this is expected to be the case for cultural toponymies and family names within patrilineal and matrilineal groups considered in association with the nonrecombining region of the Y chromosome (NRY) and the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) portion of the genome, respectively. …”