The Strength and Timing of the Mitochondrial Bottleneck in Salmon Suggests a Conserved Mechanism in Vertebrates

Previous Estimates of Mitochondrial DNA Mutation Level Variance Did Not Account for Sampling Error: Comparing the mtDNA Genetic Bottleneck in Mice and Humans

(2010) Passorn Wonnapinij et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Heteroplasmic mitochondrial DNA mutations in normal and tumour cells

(2010) Yiping He et al.   NATURE

Reassessing evidence for a postnatal mitochondrial genetic bottleneck

(2010) David C Samuels et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Transmission of Mitochondrial DNA Diseases and Ways to Prevent Them

(2010) Joanna Poulton et al.   PLoS Genetics

Modelling mitochondrial site polymorphisms to infer the number of segregating units and mutation rate

(2009) M. D. Hendy et al.   Biology Letters

Can Indirect Tests Detect a Known Recombination Event in Human mtDNA?

(2009) D. J. White et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

New Evidence Confirms That the Mitochondrial Bottleneck Is Generated without Reduction of Mitochondrial DNA Content in Early Primordial Germ Cells of Mice

(2009) Liqin Cao et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Distribution of Mitochondrial DNA Heteroplasmy Due to Random Genetic Drift

(2008) Passorn Wonnapinij et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Lost in the zygote: the dilution of paternal mtDNA upon fertilization

(2008) J N Wolff et al.   HEREDITY

Revealing the hidden complexities of mtDNA inheritance

(2008) DANIEL JAMES WHITE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Two ways to make an mtDNA bottleneck

(2008) Konstantin Khrapko   NATURE GENETICS

The mitochondrial DNA genetic bottleneck results from replication of a subpopulation of genomes

(2008) Timothy Wai et al.   NATURE GENETICS

A reduction of mitochondrial DNA molecules during embryogenesis explains the rapid segregation of genotypes

(2008) Lynsey M Cree et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Purifying selection of mtDNA and its implications for understanding evolution and mitochondrial disease

(2008) James Bruce Stewart et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Sidestepping Mutational Meltdown

(2008) Eric A. Shoubridge et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2008) Weiwei Fan et al.   SCIENCE

Strong Purifying Selection in Transmission of Mammalian Mitochondrial DNA

(2008) James Bruce Stewart et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Mutation and Evolutionary Rates in Adélie Penguins from the Antarctic

(2008) Craig D. Millar et al.   PLoS Genetics