In most eukaryotes, organellar genomes are transmitted preferentially by the mother, but
molecular mechanisms and evolutionary forces underlying this fundamental biological …

Genetic incompatibility between the cytoplasm and the nucleus is thought to be a major
factor in species formation, but mechanistic understanding of this process is poor. In evening …

The genomes of cytoplasmic organelles (mitochondria and plastids) are maternally inherited
in most eukaryotes, thus excluding organellar genomes from the benefits of sexual …

It is widely believed that plastid and mitochondrial genomes are inherited through the
maternal parent. In plants, however, paternal transmission of these genomes is frequently …

Although organelle inheritance is predominantly maternal across animals and plants,
biparental chloroplast inheritance has arisen multiple times in the angiosperms. Biparental …

Plastids of Oenothera, the evening primrose, can be transmitted to the progeny from both
parents. In a constant nuclear background, the frequency of biparental plastid transmission …

Abstract When Erwin Baur, at the beginning of this century, proposed that the non-
Mendelian inheritance of leaf variegations can be explained with the assumption that …

An intriguing feature of most eukaryotes is that chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes are
inherited almost exclusively from one parent. This can be explained for those organisms that …

Plastids are essential organelles in angiosperms and show non-Mendelian inheritance due
to their evolution as endosymbionts. In approximately 80% of angiosperms, plastids are …

Membrane heredity was central to the unique symbiogenetic origin from cyanobacteria of
chloroplasts in the ancestor of Plantae (green plants, red algae, glaucophytes) and to …