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Mitochondria: A Microcosm of Darwinian Competition.
Current biology : CB - 16 Dec 2019
Gitschlag Bryan L, Patel Maulik R
Abstract excerpt
Resource limitation underlies competition in the living world, even between intracellular populations of mitochondria. A new study shows that reducing the availability of an essential cellular resource, namely the enzyme that replicates mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), can alter the selective advantage of one mtDNA type over another.
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