The Red Queen in mitochondria: cyto-nuclear co-evolution, hybrid breakdown and human disease
Cyto-nuclear incompatibility, a specific form of Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibility caused by incompatible alleles between mitochondrial and nuclear genomes, has been suggested to play a critical role during speciation. Several features of the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA), including high mutation rat...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-05-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Genetics |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2015.00187/full |