Elimination of mitochondrial mutations by sexual reproduction: Two Podospora anserina mitochondrial mutants yield only wild-type progeny when mated

Current Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 318-324

  Silliker, Margaret E ^a   Liotta, Margaret R ^a   Cummings, Donald J ^b  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial inheritance; Mitochondrial transmission; Podospora anserina; Senescence

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; MALE; MATING; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION;

AGING; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REPRODUCTION;

FUNGI; PODOSPORA; PODOSPORA ANSERINA;

EID: 0029823119     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050139     Document Type: Article

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