Why are most organelle genomes transmitted maternally?

BioEssays

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 80-94

  Greiner, Stephan ^a   Sobanski, Johanna ^a   Bock, Ralph ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytoplasmic incompatibility; Muller's ratchet; Organelle inheritance; Organelle recombination; Paternal leakage; Plastome genome incompatibility; Selfish cytoplasmic elements

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL ORGANELLE; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENOME; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MODELS, GENETIC; ORGANELLES; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84919458849     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201400110     Document Type: Article

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