The expression of a novel mitochondrially-encoded gene in gonadic precursors may drive paternal inheritance of mitochondria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Milani, Liliana ^a   Ghiselli, Fabrizio ^a   Pecci, Andrea ^a   Maurizii, Maria Gabriella ^a   Passamonti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEIN; RNA HELICASE; RPHM21 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GENETIC MARKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FATHER; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM LINE; GONAD; INHERITANCE; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RPHM21 GENE; RUDITAPES PHILIPPINARUM; SPERMATOGENESIS; VASPH GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIVALVE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; ORGANOGENESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPERMATOZOON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GONADS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANOGENESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84944340111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137468     Document Type: Article

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