Article
Maternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA during backcrossing of two species of mice.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Gyllensten U, Wharton D, Wilson A C
Abstract excerpt
As judged by restriction analysis, mitochondrial DNA shows strictly maternal inheritance during 6-8 generations of backcrossing in both directions between Mus domesticus and Mus spretus. The average number of paternal mitochondrial genomes contributed to the next generation is estimated to be no...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Nucleus
- Crosses, Genetic
- DNA
- DNA Restriction Enzymes
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Female
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Molecular Weight
- Muridae
- Mutation
- Ovum
- Sex Factors
- Spermatozoa