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SUBMITTER: Mastrantonio V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6365633 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mastrantonio Valentina V Latrofa Maria Stefania MS Porretta Daniele D Lia Riccardo Paolo RP Parisi Antonio A Iatta Roberta R Dantas-Torres Filipe F Otranto Domenico D Urbanelli Sandra S
Scientific reports 20190206 1
Paternal leakage of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and heteroplasmy have been recently described in several animal species. In arthropods, by searching in the Scopus database, we found only 23 documented cases of paternal leakage. Therefore, although arthropods represent a large fraction of animal biodiversity, this phenomenon has been investigated only in a paucity of species in this phylum, thus preventing a reliable estimate of its frequency. Here, we investigated the occurrence of paternal leakag ...[more]