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Paternal leakage and mtDNA heteroplasmy in Rhipicephalus spp. ticks
6 Feb 2019
Abstract excerpt
Paternal leakage of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and heteroplasmy have been recently described in several animal species. In arthropods, by searching in the Scopus database, we found only 23 documented cases of paternal leakage. Therefore, although arthropods represent a large fraction of animal biodiversity, this phenomenon has been investigated only in a paucity of species in this phylum, thus preventing a...
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