Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is predominately uniparentally transmitted. This results in
organisms with a single type of mtDNA (homoplasmy), but two or more mtDNA haplotypes …

Mitochondria possess their own genetic material (mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA), whose
gene products are involved in mitochondrial respiration and oxidative phosphorylation …

Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods), occurring in
virtually all habitats. Some are commercially important, a few are pests and some carry …

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is a pivotal tool in molecular ecology, evolutionary and
population genetics. The power of mtDNA analyses derives from a relatively high mutation …

Many bivalvian mollusks have a sperm-transmitted mitochondrial genome (M), along with
the standard egg-transmitted one (F). The phenomenon, known as doubly uniparental …

Mitochondrial (mt) function depends critically on optimal interactions between components
encoded by mt and nuclear DNAs. mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) inheritance (SMI) is thought …

Background Doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) is an atypical system of animal mtDNA
inheritance found only in some bivalves. Under DUI, maternally (F genome) and paternally …

Documenting the occurrence and habitat occupancy of rare aquatic species is an ongoing
challenge for conservation. Characterization of environmental DNA (eDNA) from bulk water …

Mitochondrial DNA is transmitted maternally in metazoan species. This rule does not hold in
several species of bivalves that have two mtDNA types, one that is transmitted maternally …

Bivalve species are characterized by extraordinary variability in terms of mitochondrial (mt)
genome size, gene arrangement and tRNA gene number. Many species are thought to lack …