Transmission of Mitochondrial Deoxyribonucleic Acid in Neurospora Crassa Sexual Crosses

Overview

Journal J Bacteriol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Microbiology

Date 1979 Mar 1

PMID 155689

Citations 20

Authors

C A Mannella

T H Pittenger

A M Lambowitz

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Abstract

Neurospora crassa mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid shows strict uniparental inheritance in sexual crosses, with a notable absence of mixtures and recombinant types that appear frequently in heteroplasmons.

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