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Germline bottlenecks, biparental inheritance and selection on mitochondrial variants: a two-level selection model.
Genetics - 1 Jul 2005
Roze Denis, Rousset François, Michalakis Yannis
Abstract excerpt
Selection on mitochondrial mutations potentially occurs at different levels: at the mitochondria, cell, and organism levels. Several factors affect the strength of selection at these different levels; in particular, mitochondrial bottlenecks during germline development and reduced paternal transmission decrease the genetic variance within cells, while they increase the variance between cells and between...
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