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SUBMITTER: Smietanka B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6149501 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Śmietanka Beata B Lubośny Marek M Przyłucka Aleksandra A Gérard Karin K Burzyński Artur A
PeerJ 20180918
Animal mitochondria are usually inherited through the maternal lineage. The exceptional system allowing fathers to transmit their mitochondria to the offspring exists in some bivalves. Its taxonomic spread is poorly understood and new mitogenomic data are needed to fill the gap. Here, we present for the first time the two divergent mitogenomes from Chilean mussel <i>Perumytilus purpuratus.</i> The existence of these sex-specific mitogenomes confirms that this species has the doubly uniparental i ...[more]