Selection against Heteroplasmy Explains the Evolution of Uniparental Inheritance of Mitochondria

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Progressive increase in mtDNA 3243A>G heteroplasmy causes abrupt transcriptional reprogramming

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Dynamics of mitochondrial inheritance in the evolution of binary mating types and two sexes

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Heteroplasmy of Mouse mtDNA Is Genetically Unstable and Results in Altered Behavior and Cognition

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Purifying Selection in Mammalian Mitochondrial Protein-Coding Genes Is Highly Effective and Congruent with Evolution of Nuclear Genes

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Selection for mitonuclear co-adaptation could favour the evolution of two sexes

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Detection of heteroplasmy in individual mitochondrial particles

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Paternal inheritance of mitochondria in Chlamydomonas

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A heteroplasmic, not homoplasmic, mitochondrial DNA mutation promotes tumorigenesis via alteration in reactive oxygen species generation and apoptosis

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Mitochondrial nucleoids maintain genetic autonomy but allow for functional complementation

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A genome-wide view of the spectrum of spontaneous mutations in yeast

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A Mouse Model of Mitochondrial Disease Reveals Germline Selection Against Severe mtDNA Mutations

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Direct Estimation of the Mitochondrial DNA Mutation Rate in Drosophila melanogaster

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