Evolutionary genetics. Clonal inheritance of avian mitochondrial DNA. Export

@article{citeulike:3740580, abstract = {We have taken a new approach to test the commonly accepted, but recently questioned, principle of clonal inheritance of vertebrate mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) by relating its inheritance to a female-specific marker of nuclear DNA. Whereas this is impossible in organisms with male heterogamy (such as mammals), we show here that genealogies of mtDNA and the female-specific W chromosome of a bird species are completely concordant. Our results indicate that inheritance of mtDNA is free of detectable recombination effects over an evolutionary timescale.}, author = {Berlin, S. and Ellegren, H.}, citeulike-article-id = {3740580}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/35092623}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11544517}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=11544517}, day = {6}, doi = {10.1038/35092623}, issn = {0028-0836}, journal = {Nature}, keywords = {avian, mitochondria}, month = {September}, number = {6851}, pages = {37--38}, posted-at = {2009-01-16 10:15:41}, priority = {2}, title = {Evolutionary genetics. Clonal inheritance of avian mitochondrial DNA.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/35092623}, volume = {413}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3740580 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3740580 N2 - We have taken a new approach to test the commonly accepted, but recently questioned, principle of clonal inheritance of vertebrate mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) by relating its inheritance to a female-specific marker of nuclear DNA. Whereas this is impossible in organisms with male heterogamy (such as mammals), we show here that genealogies of mtDNA and the female-specific W chromosome of a bird species are completely concordant. Our results indicate that inheritance of mtDNA is free of detectable recombination effects over an evolutionary timescale. IS - 6851 JF - Nature SN - 0028-0836 EP - 38 TI - Evolutionary genetics. Clonal inheritance of avian mitochondrial DNA. VL - 413 SP - 37 KW - avian KW - mitochondria AU - Berlin, S AU - Ellegren, H PY - 2001/09/06/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/35092623 ER -