DOUBLY UNIPARENTAL INHERITANCE PAPERS

 

Specific ORFs

Breton, S., D. T. Stewart, S. Shepardson, R. J. Trdan, A. E. Bogan, E. G. Chapman, A. J. Ruminas, H. Piontkivska

and W. R. Hoeh. 2011. Novel protein genes in animal mtDNA: a new sex determination system in freshwater mussels

(Bivalvia: Unionoida)?. Mol. Biol. Evol. 28(5): 1645-59. HERE

 

Breton, S., F. Ghiselli, M. Passamonti, L. Milani, D. T. Stewart and W. R. Hoeh. 2011. Evidence for a fourteenth

mtDNA-encoded protein in the female-transmitted mtDNA of marine mussels (Bivalvia: Mytilidae). PLoS One

6(4): e19365.  HERE

 

Breton, S., H. Doucet-Beaupre, D. T. Stewart, H. Piontkivska, M. Karmakar, A. E. Bogan, P. U. Blier and W.

R. Hoeh. 2009. Comparative mitochondrial genomics of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoids) with doubly

uniparental inheritance of mtDNA: gender-specific open reading frames and putative origins of replication.

Genetics. 183: 1575-1589. HERE

 

Ghiselli, F., L. Milani, D. Guerra, P. L. Chang, S. Breton, S. V. Nuzhdin and M. Passamonti. 2013. Structure,

 transcription and variability of metazoan mitochondrial genome. Perspectives from an unusual mitochondrial

inheritance system. Genome Biol. Evol. 5(8): 1535–1554. HERE

 

Hoffman, R. J., J. Boore and W. M. Brown. 1992. A novel mitochondrial genome organization for the blue mussel,

Mytilus edulis. Genetics. 131: 397-412. HERE

 

Kyriakou, E., E. Chatzoglou, G. C. Rodakis and E. Zouros. 2014. Does the ORF in the control region of Mytilus mtDNA

code for a protein product? Gene. 546: 448-450. HERE

 

Milani, L., F. Ghiselli, D. Guerra, S. Breton and M. Passamonti. 2013. A comparative analysis of mitochondrial

ORFans: new clues on their origin and role in species with Doubly Uniparental Inheritance of mitochondria.

Genome Biol. Evol. 5(7): 1408-1434. HERE

 

Milani, L., F. Ghiselli, M. Iannello and M. Passamonti. 2014. Evidence for somatic transcription of male-transmitted

mitochondrial genome in the DUI species Ruditapes philippinarum (Bivalvia: Veneridae). Curr Genet. HERE

 

Milani, L., F. Ghiselli, M. G. Maurizii, S. V.  Nuzhdin and M. Passamonti. 2014. Paternally transmitted mitochondria

express a new gene of potential viral origin. Genome Biol. Evol. 6(2): 391-405. 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

 

Minoiu, I., Burzyński, A. and S. Breton. 2016. Analysis of the coding potential of the ORF in the control region of the

female-transmitted Mytilus mtDNA. Gene. 576: 586–588. HERE