Reduced variation in Drosophila simulans mitochondrial DNA.

doi:10.1093/genetics/144.4.1519

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Reduced variation in Drosophila simulans mitochondrial DNA.

Genetics - 1 Dec 1996

Ballard J W, Hatzidakis J, Karr T L, Kreitman M

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We investigated the evolutionary dynamics of infection of a Drosophila simulans population by a maternally inherited insect bacterial parasite, Wolbachia, by analyzing nucleotide variability in three regions of the mitochondrial genome in four infected and 35 uninfected lines. Mitochondrial varia...

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Animals
DNA, Mitochondrial
Drosophila
Evolution, Molecular
Genetic Variation
Rickettsia Infections

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