High heteroplasmy is associated with low mitochondrial copy number and selection against non-synonymous mutations in the snail Cepaea nemoralis
(2024)
Journal Article
Davison, A., Chowdhury, M., Johansen, M., Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Programme, Uliano-Silva, M., & Blaxter, M. (2024). High heteroplasmy is associated with low mitochondrial copy number and selection against non-synonymous mutations in the snail Cepaea nemoralis. BMC Genomics, 25(1), Article 596. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-024-10505-w
Molluscan mitochondrial genomes are unusual because they show wide variation in size, radical genome rearrangements and frequently show high variation (>10%) within species. As progress in understanding this variation has been limited, we used whole... Read More about High heteroplasmy is associated with low mitochondrial copy number and selection against non-synonymous mutations in the snail Cepaea nemoralis.