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SUBMITTER: Ciborowski KL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2396188 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biology letters 20071001 5
Recombination is thought to occur only rarely in animal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). However, detection of mtDNA recombination requires that cells become heteroplasmic through mutation, intramolecular recombination or 'leakage' of paternal mtDNA. Interspecific hybridization increases the probability of detecting mtDNA recombinants due to higher levels of sequence divergence and potentially higher levels of paternal leakage. During a study of historical variation in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) mt ...[more]