DOUBLY UNIPARENTAL INHERITANCE PAPERS

Developmental studies - Fate of sperm mitochondria in embryos

Milani, L. 2015. Mitochondrial membrane potential: a trait involved in organelle inheritance? Biol Lett. 11(10). HERE

Cao, L., E. Kenchington and E. Zouros. 2004. Differential segregation patterns of sperm mitochondria in embryos

of the blue mussel (Mytilus edulis). Genetics. 166(2): 883-94. HERE

Diz, A. P., E. Dudley, A. Cogswell, B. W. Macdonald, E. L. Kenchington, E. Zouros and D. O. Skibinski. 2013.

Proteomic analysis of eggs from Mytilus edulis females differing in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) transmission

mode. Mol. Cell Proteomics. HERE

Diz, A. P., E. Dudley, B. W. MacDonald, B. Pina, E. L. R. Kenchington, E. Zouros and D. O. F. Skibinski. 2009.

Genetic variation underlying protein expression in eggs of the marine mussel Mytilus edulis. Mol. Cell. Proteomics.

8(1): 132-44. HERE

Guerra, D., Ghiselli, F., Milani, L., Breton, S. and M. Passamonti. 2015. Early replication dynamics of sex-linked

mitochondrial DNAs in the doubly uniparental inheritance species Ruditapes philippinarum (Bivalvia Veneridae).

Heredity (Edinb). doi: 10.1038/hdy.2015.105. HERE

Kenchington, E. L., L. Hamilton, A. Cogswell and E. Zouros. 2009. Paternal mtDNA and maleness are co-inherited

but not causally linked in Mytilid mussels. PLoS One. 4(9): e6976. HERE

Milani, L., F. Ghiselli, and M. Passamonti. 2012. Sex-linked mitochondrial behavior during early embryo development

in Ruditapes philippinarum (Bivalvia Veneridae) a species with the Doubly Uniparental Inheritance (DUI) of

mitochondria. J. Exp. Zool. B Mol. Dev. Evol. 318(3): 182-189. HERE

Milani, L., F. Ghiselli, M-G. Maurizii and M. Passamonti. 2011. Doubly uniparental inheritance of the mitochondria

as a model system for studying germ line formation. PLoS One. 6(11): e28194. HERE

Milani, L., Ghiselli, F., Pecci, A., Maurizii, M. G. and M. Passamonti. 2015. The Expression of a Novel Mitochondrially-

Encoded Gene in Gonadic Precursors May Drive Paternal Inheritance of Mitochondria. PLoS One. 10: e0137468. HERE

Obata M., M. Shimizu, N. Sano and A. Komaru. 2008. Maternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in the

Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas): a preliminary study using mtDNA sequence analysis with evidence of random

distribution of MitoTracker-stained sperm mitochondria in fertilized eggs. Zoolog. Sci. 25(3): 248-54. HERE

Obata, M. and A. Komaru. 2005. Specific location of sperm mitochondria in mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis zygotes

stained by MitoTracker. Dev. Growth Differ. 47(4): 255-63. HERE

Sano, N., M. Obata, Y. Ooie and A. Kumaru. 2011. Mitochondrial DNA copy number is maintained during spermatogenesis

and in the development of male larvae to sustain the doubly uniparental inheritance of mitochondrial DNA system in the

blue mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis. Dev. Growth Differ. 53: 816-821. HERE

Sano, N., M. Obata and A. Komaru. 2013. Mitochondrial DNA transcription levels during spermatogenesis and early

development in Doubly Uniparental Inheritance of the mitochondrial DNA system of the blue mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis.

Zoolog. Sci. 30(8): 675-679. HERE

Sutherland, B., D. Stewart, E. R. Kenchington and E. Zouros. 1998. The fate of paternal mitochondrial DNA in developing

female mussels, Mytilus edulis: implications for the mechanism of doubly uniparental inheritance of mitochondrial DNA.

Genetics. 148(1): 341-347. HERE

Theologidis, I., C. Saavedra and E. Zouros. 2007. No evidence for absence of paternal mtDNA in male progeny from pair

maitings of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis. Genetics. 176(2): 1367-1369. HERE