Keeping mtDNA in Shape between Generations

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Stewart, James B ^a   Larsson, Nils Göran ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGY OF AGEING   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AGING; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA REPLICATION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; POINT MUTATION; PURIFYING SELECTION; SOMATIC MUTATION; ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; MUTATION; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON;

AGING; ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MITOCHONDRIA; MUTATION; OOCYTES; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84908313144     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004670     Document Type: Article

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