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SUBMITTER: Klucnika A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6451365 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Open biology 20190301 3
The mitochondrial genome is an evolutionarily persistent and cooperative component of metazoan cells that contributes to energy production and many other cellular processes. Despite sharing the same host as the nuclear genome, the multi-copy mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) follows very different rules of replication and transmission, which translate into differences in the patterns of selection. On one hand, mtDNA is dependent on the host for its transmission, so selections would favour genomes that b ...[more]