DOUBLY UNIPARENTAL INHERITANCE PAPERS

                                        2011

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.

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Ghiselli, F., L. Milani and M. Passamonti. 2011. Strict sex-specific mtDNA segregation in the germ line of the DUI

species Venerupis philippinarum (Bivalvia: Veneridae). Mol. Biol. Evol. 28(2): 949-961. HERE

Ladoukakis, E. D., I. Theologidis, G. C. Rodakis and E. Zouros. 2011. Homologous recombination between highly diverged

mitochondrial sequences: examples from maternally and paternally transmitted genomes. Mol. Biol. Evol. 28(6): 1847-59.

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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

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

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.

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Plazzi, F., A. Ceregato, M. Taviani and M. Passamonti. 2011. A molecular phylogeny of bivalve mollusks: Ancient 

radiations and divergences as revealed by mitochondrial genes. PLoS ONE. 6(11): e27147. 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