Lost in the zygote: The dilution of paternal mtDNA upon fertilization

Heredity

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 429-434

  Wolff, J N ^a   Gemmell, N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Gametes; mtDNA quantification; Paternal leakage; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PATERNAL EFFECT; PATERNITY; RECOMBINATION; SALMONID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENETICS; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SALMON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOZOON; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; OOCYTES; SALMON; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOZOA; ZYGOTE;

MAMMALIA; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 54349128351     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2008.74     Document Type: Article

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