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Cytonuclear interactions and the economics of mating in seed beetles.
The American naturalist - 1 Aug 2010
Dowling Damian K, Meerupati Tejashwari, Arnqvist Göran
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies have uncovered an abundance of nonneutral cytoplasmic genetic variation within species, which suggests that we should no longer consider the cytoplasm an idle intermediary of evolutionary change. Nonneutrality of cytoplasmic genomes is particularly intriguing, given that these genomes are maternally transmitted. This means that the fate of any given cytoplasmic genetic mutation is directly tied to...
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