DOUBLY UNIPARENTAL INHERITANCE PAPERS

COII extension

Chakrabarti, R., J. M. Walker, D. T. Stewart, R. J. Trdan, S. Vijayaraghavan, J. P. Curole and W. R. Hoeh. 2006.

Presence of a unique male-specific extension of C-terminus to the cytochrome c oxidase subunit II protein

coded by the male-transmitted mitochondrial genome of Venustaconcha ellipsiformis (Bivalvia: Unionoidea).

FEBS Letters. 580: 862-866. HERE

Chakrabarti, R., J. M. Walker, E. G. Chapman, S. P. Shepardson, R. J. Trdan, J. P. Curole, G. T. Watters, D. T.

Stewart, S. Vijayaraghavan, and W. R. Hoeh. 2007. Reproductive function for a C-terminus extended male-transmitted

cytochrome c oxidase subunit II protein expressed in both spermatozoa and eggs. FEBS Letters. 581: 5213-5219. HERE

Chakrabarti, R., S. Shepardson, M. Karmakar, R. Trdan, J. Walker, R. Shandilya, D. Stewart, S. Vijayaraghavan

and W. Hoeh. 2009. Extra-mitochondrial localization and likely reproductive function of a female-transmitted

cytochrome c oxidase subunit II protein. Develop. Growth Differ. 51: 511-519. HERE

Chapman, E. G., H. Piontkivska, J. M. Walker, D. T. Stewart, J. P. Curole and W. R. Hoeh. 2008. Extreme primary

and secondary protein structure variability in the chimeric male-transmitted cytochrome c oxidase subunit II protein

in freshwater mussels: Evidence for an elevated amino acid substitution rate in the face of domain-specific purifying

selection. BMC Evol. Biol. 8: 165. HERE

Curole, J. P. 2004. Universal primers for the specific amplification of the male mitotype of the Unionoidea (Bivalvia).

Cons. Genet. 5: 733-735. HERE

Curole, J. P. and T. D. Kocher. 2002. Ancient sex-specific extension of the cytochrome c oxidase gene in Bivalves and

the fidelity of doubly-uniparental inheritance. Mol. Biol. Evol. 19(8): 1323-1328. HERE

Curole, J. P. and T. D. Kocher. 2005. Evolution of a unique mitotype-specific protein-coding extension of the cytochrome

c oxidase II gene in freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida). J. Mol. Evol. 61(3): 381-9. HERE

Passamonti, M., A. Ricci, L. Milani and F. Ghiselli. 2011. Mitochondrial genomes and doubly uniparental inheritance:

new insights from Musculista senhousia sex-linked mitochondrial DNAs (Bivalvia Mytilidae). BMC Genomics. 12: 442. HERE