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Environmental Factors Can Influence Mitochondrial Inheritance in the Saccharomyces Yeast Hybrids.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Hsu Yu-Yi, Chou Jui-Yu
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondria play a critical role in the generation of metabolic energy and are crucial for eukaryotic cell survival and proliferation. In most sexual eukaryotes, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is inherited from only one parent in non-Mendelian inheritance in contrast to the inheritance of nuclear DNA. The model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae is commonly used to study mitochondrial biology. It has two mating types:...
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