Intracellular symbionts and the evolution of uniparental cytoplasmic inheritance.

doi:10.1098/rspb.1992.0044

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Intracellular symbionts and the evolution of uniparental cytoplasmic inheritance.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Apr 1992

Law R, Hutson V

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Uniparental inheritance of cytoplasmic elements is widespread among eukaryotic organisms and is achieved by a diverse range of mechanisms. This paper shows that the cytoplasmic genetic system would be expected to evolve towards uniparental inheritance, given the existence of deleterious symbionts...

Topics

Animals
Biological Evolution
Crosses, Genetic
Cytoplasm
Female
Genotype
Male
Mathematics
Models, Genetic
Probability
Symbiosis

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