Do avian mitochondria recombine?

• Published in: Journal of Molecular Evolution
• Main Authors: Berlin, Sofia, Smith, Nick G. C., Ellegren, Hans
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Parus; Falco peregrinus
• Online Access: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/9370/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00239-003-2537-z

The dogma of strict maternal inheritance of mitochondria is now being tested with population genetics methods on sequence data from many species. In this study we investigated whether recombination occurs in the mitochondria of the blue tit (Parus caeruleus) by studying polymorphisms in the mitochon...