Mitochondrial DNA length variation and heteroplasmy in populations of white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus).

doi:10.1093/genetics/132.1.221

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Mitochondrial DNA length variation and heteroplasmy in populations of white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus).

Genetics - 1 Sept 1992

Brown J R, Beckenbach A T, Smith M J

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Southern blot analysis was used to quantify the extent of mtDNA D-loop length variation in two populations of white sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus. Over 42% of individuals were heteroplasmic for up to six different mtDNA length variants attributable to varying copy numbers of an 82-bp repeat s...

Topics

Animals
Base Sequence
Blotting, Southern
DNA Probes
DNA, Mitochondrial
Fishes
Genotype
Molecular Sequence Data
Phylogeny
Polymorphism, Genetic

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