The unusual system of doubly uniparental inheritance of mtDNA: isn't one enough?

S Breton, HD Beaupre, DT Stewart, WR Hoeh, PU Blier - Trends in genetics, 2007 - cell.com
Mitochondria possess their own genetic material (mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA), whose
gene products are involved in mitochondrial respiration and oxidative phosphorylation …

Revealing the hidden complexities of mtDNA inheritance

DJ White, JN Wolff, M Pierson… - Molecular ecology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Biparental inheritance through uniparental transmission: the doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) of mitochondrial DNA

E Zouros - Evolutionary Biology, 2013 - Springer
Many bivalvian mollusks have a sperm-transmitted mitochondrial genome (M), along with
the standard egg-transmitted one (F). The phenomenon, known as doubly uniparental …

A single clonal lineage of transmissible cancer identified in two marine mussel species in South America and Europe

MA Yonemitsu, RM Giersch, M Polo-Prieto, M Hammel… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Transmissible cancers, in which cancer cells themselves act as an infectious agent, have
been identified in Tasmanian devils, dogs, and four bivalves. We investigated a …

Sex-determining mechanisms in bivalves

S Breton, C Capt, D Guerra, D Stewart - Transitions between sexual …, 2018 - Springer
In this review, we provide an overview of the current knowledge on the different sexual
systems and sex-determining mechanisms in bivalves, with a focus on the various …

First description of a widespread Mytilus trossulus-derived bivalve transmissible cancer lineage in M. trossulus itself

M Skazina, N Odintsova, M Maiorova, A Ivanova… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Two lineages of bivalve transmissible neoplasia (BTN), BTN1 and BTN2, are known in blue
mussels Mytilus. Both lineages derive from the Pacific mussel M. trossulus and are identified …

Combining hydrodynamic modelling with genetics: can passive larval drift shape the genetic structure of Baltic Mytilus populations?

H Stuckas, L Knöbel, H Schade, C Breusing… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
While secondary contact between Mytilus edulis and Mytilus trossulus in North America
results in mosaic hybrid zone formation, both species form a hybrid swarm in the Baltic …

DOUBLY UNIPARENTAL INHERITANCE (DUI) OF MITOCHONDRIAL DNA IN DONAX TRUNCULUS (BIVALVIA: DONACIDAE) AND THE PROBLEM OF ITS …

I Theologidis, S Fodelianakis, MB Gaspar, E Zouros - Evolution, 2008 - academic.oup.com
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 …

The effect of mitochondrial recombination on fertilization success in blue mussels

G Bramwell, AG Schultz, G Jennings, UN Nini… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The presence of doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) in bivalves represents a unique mode
of mitochondrial transmission, whereby paternal (male-transmitted M-type) and maternal …

Structure, transcription, and variability of metazoan mitochondrial genome: perspectives from an unusual mitochondrial inheritance system

F Ghiselli, L Milani, D Guerra, PL Chang… - Genome biology and …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Despite its functional conservation, the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) presents strikingly
different features among eukaryotes, such as size, rearrangements, and amount of …