Why are most organelle genomes transmitted maternally?

Selective propagation of functional mitochondrial DNA during oogenesis restricts the transmission of a deleterious mitochondrial variant

(2014) Jahda H Hill et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Transmission of mitochondrial mutations and action of purifying selection in Drosophila melanogaster

(2014) Hansong Ma et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Chloroplast DNA in Mature and Senescing Leaves: A Reappraisal

(2014) Hieronim Golczyk et al.   PLANT CELL

Cytonuclear Genomic Interactions and Hybrid Breakdown

(2013) Ronald S. Burton et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Mitochondrial genome function and maternal inheritance

(2013) John F. Allen et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Maternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA by diverse mechanisms to eliminate paternal mitochondrial DNA

(2013) Miyuki Sato et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH

Tuning a ménage à trois: Co-evolution and co-adaptation of nuclear and organellar genomes in plants

(2013) Stephan Greiner et al.   BIOESSAYS

Extensive paternal mtDNA leakage in natural populations ofDrosophila melanogaster

(2013) Maria D. S. Nunes et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Maternal inheritance of mitochondrial genomes and complex inheritance of chloroplast genomes in Actinidia Lind.: evidences from interspecific crosses

(2013) Dawei Li et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

Paternal leakage, heteroplasmy, and the evolution of plant mitochondrial genomes

(2013) David E. McCauley   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

No recombination of mtDNA after heteroplasmy for 50 generations in the mouse maternal germline

(2013) E. Hagstrom et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

(2013) Z. Hadjivasiliou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mitochondria, maternal inheritance, and asymmetric fitness: Why males die younger

(2012) Jonci N. Wolff et al.   BIOESSAYS

The Problem with Mixing Mitochondria

(2012) Nick Lane   CELL

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

(2012) Mark S. Sharpley et al.   CELL

Biparental inheritance of organelles in Pelargonium: evidence for intergenomic recombination of mitochondrial DNA

(2012) Janina Apitz et al.   PLANTA

Does the Mode of Plastid Inheritance Influence Plastid Genome Architecture?

(2012) Kate Crosby et al.   PLoS One

Mitonuclear match: Optimizing fitness and fertility over generations drives ageing within generations

(2011) Nick Lane   BIOESSAYS

The role of plastids in plant speciation

(2011) STEPHAN GREINER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Z. Hadjivasiliou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Having sex, yes, but with whom? Inferences from fungi on the evolution of anisogamy and mating types

(2010) Sylvain Billiard et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Differential Replication of Two Chloroplast Genome Forms in Heteroplasmic Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Gametes Contributes to Alternative Inheritance Patterns

(2010) Y. Nishimura et al.   GENETICS

Paternal Leakage and Heteroplasmy of Mitochondrial Genomes in Silene vulgaris: Evidence From Experimental Crosses

(2010) K. E. Bentley et al.   GENETICS

Mechanisms for independent cytoplasmic inheritance of mitochondria and plastids in angiosperms

(2010) Noriko Nagata   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

Cytoplasmic inheritance of organelles in brown algae

(2010) Taizo Motomura et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

Cytoplasmic inheritance in green algae: patterns, mechanisms and relation to sex type

(2010) Shinichi Miyamura   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

Review of cytological studies on cellular and molecular mechanisms of uniparental (maternal or paternal) inheritance of plastid and mitochondrial genomes induced by active digestion of organelle nuclei (nucleoids)

(2010) Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

Recombination and the maintenance of plant organelle genome stability

(2010) Alexandre Maréchal et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Levels of Male Gametic Mitochondrial DNA Are Highly Regulated in Angiosperms with Regard to Mitochondrial Inheritance

(2010) D.-Y. Wang et al.   PLANT CELL

Fewer genes than organelles: extremely low and variable gene copy numbers in mitochondria of somatic plant cells

(2010) Tobias Preuten et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Selection for male-enforced uniparental cytoplasmic inheritance

(2010) Vandana Sreedharan et al.   THEORY IN BIOSCIENCES

Number matters: control of mammalian mitochondrial DNA copy number

(2009) Laura L. Clay Montier et al.   Journal of Genetics and Genomics

The causes of mutation accumulation in mitochondrial genomes

(2009) M. Neiman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Interactions between vertically transmitted symbionts: cooperation or conflict?

(2009) Emilie Vautrin et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Reconstructing evolution: Gene transfer from plastids to the nucleus

(2008) Ralph Bock et al.   BIOESSAYS

Detection of rare paternal chloroplast inheritance in controlled crosses of the endangered sunflower Helianthus verticillatus

(2008) J R Ellis et al.   HEREDITY

Revealing the hidden complexities of mtDNA inheritance

(2008) DANIEL JAMES WHITE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Relative rates of synonymous substitutions in the mitochondrial, chloroplast and nuclear genomes of seed plants

(2008) G DROUIN et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Occurrence of Plastids in the Sperm Cells of Caprifoliaceae: Biparental Plastid Inheritance in Angiosperms is Unilaterally Derived from Maternal Inheritance

(2008) Yingchun Hu et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Genetic analysis of nuclear-cytoplasmic incompatibility in pea associated with cytoplasm of an accession of wild subspecies Pisum sativum subsp. elatius (Bieb.) Schmahl.

(2008) Vera S. Bogdanova et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS