The mitochondrial plasmid of the true slime mold Physarum polycephalum bypasses uniparental inheritance by promoting mitochondrial fusion

Current Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 103-114

  Sakurai, Rakusa ^a   Nomura, Hideo ^a   Moriyam, Yohsuke ^a   Kawano, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fusion; Mitochondria; Physarum polycephalum; Plasmid; Uniparental inheritance

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RECOMBINANT DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE INSERTION; INHERITANCE; MITOCHONDRION; MOULD; NONHUMAN; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHONDROMYCES; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; PHYSARUM; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM;

EID: 4444309259     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-004-0512-x     Document Type: Article

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