Selfish Little Circles: Transmission Bias and Evolution of Large Deletion-Bearing Mitochondrial DNA in Caenorhabditis briggsae Nematodes

Katie A. Clark; Dana K. Howe; Kristin Gafner; Danika Kusuma; Sita Ping; Suzanne Estes; Dee R. Denver

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041433

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Selfish Little Circles: Transmission Bias and Evolution of Large Deletion-Bearing Mitochondrial DNA in Caenorhabditis briggsae Nematodes

Katie A. Clark,

Affiliation Department of Zoology and Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America
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Dana K. Howe,

Affiliation Department of Zoology and Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America
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Kristin Gafner,

Affiliation Department of Zoology and Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America
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Danika Kusuma,

Affiliation Department of Zoology and Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America
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Sita Ping,

Affiliation Department of Zoology and Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America
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Suzanne Estes,

Affiliation Department of Biology, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America
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Dee R. Denver

* E-mail: denver@cgrb.oregonstate.edu

Affiliation Department of Zoology and Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America
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Selfish Little Circles: Transmission Bias and Evolution of Large Deletion-Bearing Mitochondrial DNA in Caenorhabditis briggsae Nematodes

Katie A. Clark,
Dana K. Howe,
Kristin Gafner,
Danika Kusuma,
Sita Ping,
Suzanne Estes,
Dee R. Denver

Published: July 31, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041433

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