Article
Germline bottlenecks and the evolutionary maintenance of mitochondrial genomes.
Genetics - 1 Aug 1998
Bergstrom C T, Pritchard J
Abstract excerpt
Several features of the biology of mitochondria suggest that mitochondria might be susceptible to Muller's ratchet and other forms of evolutionary degradation: Mitochondria have predominantly uniparental inheritance, appear to be nonrecombining, and have high mutation rates producing significant...
Topics
- Antibody Diversity
- Biological Evolution
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Genetic Variation
- Genome
- Mitochondria
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation