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Selection for mitochondrial quality drives evolution of the germline

2015-09-07

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<h4>Summary</h4> The origin of the germline-soma distinction is a fundamental unsolved question. Plants and basal metazoans do not have a germline but generate gametes from somatic tissues (somatic gametogenesis), whereas most bilaterians sequester a germline. We develop an evolutionary model which shows that selection for mitochondrial quality drives germline evolution. In organisms with low mitochondrial mutati...

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Literature Corpus work: c952677c-fd37-53e9-90b8-c034dd9c5b72
DOI: 10.1101/026252

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