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The inheritance of heteroplasmy in guppies
Author(s) -
Taylor J. S.,
Breden F.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of fish biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1095-8649
pISSN - 0022-1112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2002.tb01729.x
Subject(s) - heteroplasmy , biology , poecilia , guppy , mitochondrial dna , zoology , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , evolutionary biology , haplotype , non mendelian inheritance , genetics , fish <actinopterygii> , fishery , gene , genotype
Guppies Poecilia reticulata from the Rio Grande, Trinidad are heteroplasmic; individuals possess up to nine different‐sized mtDNA haplotypes. A PCR survey of mtDNA length variation that included mothers and embryos suggests that a large number of mitochondrial genomes (possibly within a much smaller number of organelles) pass from one generation to the next.