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Genetic mapping of paternal sorting of mitochondria in cucumber.
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik - 1 Jun 2012
Calderon Claudia I, Yandell Brian S, Havey Michael J
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Mitochondria are organelles that have their own DNA; serve as the powerhouses of eukaryotic cells; play important roles in stress responses, programmed cell death, and ageing; and in the vast majority of eukaryotes, are maternally transmitted. Strict maternal transmission of mitochondria makes it difficult to select for better-performing mitochondria, or against deleterious mutations in the mitochondrial DNA....
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