A Rolling Circle Replication Mechanism Produces Multimeric Lariats of Mitochondrial DNA in Caenorhabditis elegans

• Samantha C. Lewis ,

  * E-mail: samlewis@ucdavis.edu

  Current address: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

  Affiliations Department of Biology and Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America, BioMediTech and Tampere University Hospital, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

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• Priit Joers,

  Affiliations BioMediTech and Tampere University Hospital, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia

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• Smaranda Willcox,

  Affiliation Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Jack D. Griffith,

  Affiliation Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Howard T. Jacobs ,

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations BioMediTech and Tampere University Hospital, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, Molecular Neurology Research Program, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Bradley C. Hyman

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

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