Evidence for Paternal Leakage in Hybrid Periodical Cicadas (Hemiptera: Magicicada spp.)
Kathryn M. Fontaine, John R. Cooley, Chris Simon · 2007
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Kathryn Fontaine, John Cooley and Chris Simon looked for fathers' mitochondria leaking into hybrid cicadas, in PLOS ONE in 2007. Mitochondria, the cell's power plants, are normally passed down only by the mother. Exceptions keep turning up, most often in crosses between different lines or species.
Periodical cicadas of the genus Magicicada offer a sharp test case, since distinct broods can cross. The team checked hybrids for paternal leakage, cases where the father's mitochondria also appear. Such leakage matters because many studies use mitochondrial DNA as a clean record of maternal lines. If fathers sometimes contribute too, that record needs more care.
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| CREATOR | Kathryn M. Fontaine, John R. Cooley, Chris Simon |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2007 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| LICENSE | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS ONE |
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000892