The costs of being male: Are there sex-specific effects of uniparental mitochondrial inheritance?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1646, 2014, Pages

  Beekman, Madeleine ^a   Dowling, Damian K ^b   Aanen, Duur K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Genomic conflict; Mito nuclear coevolution; Mito nuclear interactions; Uniparental inheritance

Indexed keywords

CELL ORGANELLE; COEVOLUTION; EUKARYOTE; FERTILITY; FITNESS; GENOME; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84922395320     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0440     Document Type: Review

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