DOUBLY UNIPARENTAL INHERITANCE PAPERS

 

Transcriptome analyses – Expression studies

Beagley, C. T., R. Okimoto and D. R. Wolstenholme. 1999. Mytilus mitochondrial DNA contains a functional

gene for a tRNASer(UCN) with a dihydrouridine arm-replacement loop and a pseudo-tRNASer(UCN) gene. Genetics.

152: 641-652. HERE

 

Breton, S., D. T. Stewart and W. R. Hoeh. 2010. Characterization of a mitochondrial ORF from the gender-associated

mtDNAs of Mytilus spp. (Bivalvia: Mytilidae): Identification of the “missing” ATPase 8 gene. Mar. Genomics. 3(1):

11-8. HERE

 

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

 

Chatzoglou, E., E. Kyriakou, E. Zouros and G. C. Rodakis. 2013. The mRNAs of maternally and paternally inherited

mtDNAs of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis: start/end points and polycistronic transcripts. Gene. 520(2): 156-165. HERE

 

Dalziel, A. C. and D. T. Stewart. 2002. Tissue-specific expression of male-transmitted mitochondrial DNA and its

implications for rates of molecular evolution in Mytilus mussels (Bivalvia: Mytilidae). Genome. 45(2): 348-55. 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

 

Ghiselli, F., L. Milani, P. L. Chang, D. Hedgecock, J. P. Davis, S. V. Nuzhdin and M. Passamonti. 2012. De novo assembly

of the manila clam Ruditapes philippinarum transcriptome provides new insights into expression bias, mitochondrial doubly

uniparental inheritance and sex determination. Mol. Biol. Evol. 29(2): 771-786. HERE

 

Kyriakou, E., E.  Chatzoglou, E. Zouros and G. C. Rodakis. 2014. The rRNA and tRNA transcripts of maternally and

paternally inherited mitochondrial DNAs of Mytilus galloprovincialis suggest presence of a "degradosome" in mussel

mitochondria and necessitate the re-annotation of the l-rRNA/CR boundary. Gene. 540(1): 78-85. 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, 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., M. G. Maurizii, A. Pecci, F. Ghiselli and M. Passamonti. 2015. Localization and dynamics of primordial germ

cells in the bivalve species Ruditapes philippinarum. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 82: 406–407. HERE

 

Milani, L. and F. Ghiselli. 2015. Mitochondrial activity in gametes and transmission of viable mtDNA. Biol. Direct.

10: 22.  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

 

Obata, M., N. Sano and A. Komaru. 2011. Different transcriptional ratios of male and female transmitted mitochondrial DNA

and tissue-specific expression patterns in the blue mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis. Dev. Growth Differ. 53(7): 878-86. HERE

 

Sańko, T. Z. and A. Burzyński. 2014. Co-expressed mitochondrial genomes: recently masculinized, recombinant mitochondrial

genome is co-expressed with the femaletransmitted mtDNA genome in a male Mytilus trossulus mussel from the Baltic Sea.

BMC Genetics. 15: 28 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