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The foundation of extranuclear inheritance: plastid and mitochondrial genetics.
Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG - 1 Mar 2010
Hagemann Rudolf
Abstract excerpt
In 1909 two papers by Correns and by Baur published in volume 1 of Zeitschrift für induktive Abstammungs- und Vererbungslehre (now Molecular Genetics and Genomics) reported on the non-Mendelian inheritance of chlorophyll deficiencies. These papers, reporting the very first cases of extranuclear inheritance, laid the foundation for a new field: non-Mendelian or extranuclear genetics. Correns observed a purely...
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