The inheritance of heteroplasmy in guppies
- Resource Type
- Authors
- J. S. Taylor; Felix Breden
- Source
- Journal of Fish Biology. 60:1346-1350
- Subject
- Poeciliidae
Mitochondrial DNA
biology
Haplotype
virus diseases
Zoology
Aquatic Science
biology.organism_classification
Heteroplasmy
Guppy
Poecilia
Minisatellite
Paternal mtDNA transmission
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
- Language
- ISSN
- 1095-8649
0022-1112
Guppies Poecilia reticulata from the Rio Grande, Trinidad are heteroplasmic; individuals possess up to nine different-sized mtDNA haplotypes. A PCR survey of mtDNA length variation that included mothers and embryos suggests that a large number of mitochondrial genomes (possibly within a much smaller number of organelles) pass from one generation to the next.