mtDNA recombination in a natural population.

doi:10.1073/pnas.95.3.1331

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mtDNA recombination in a natural population.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 3 Feb 1998

Saville B J, Kohli Y, Anderson J B

Abstract excerpt

Variation in mtDNA has been used extensively to draw inferences in phylogenetics and population biology. In the majority of eukaryotes investigated, transmission of mtDNA is uniparental and clonal, with genotypic diversity arising from mutation alone. In other eukaryotes, the transmission of mtDN...

Topics

Basidiomycota
DNA, Fungal
DNA, Mitochondrial
Genetic Variation
Molecular Sequence Data
Recombination, Genetic
Restriction Mapping

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