ArticleEvolution letters2021
Mother's curse is pervasive across a large mitonuclear
Article in Evolution letters, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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- Absence of Mother's Curse for performance traits among divergent mtDNAs in heterozygous nuclear backgrounds in Drosophila.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Testing the Mother's Curse Hypothesis in Human Mitochondrial Genome Evolution.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
- The role of mitochondria in sex- and age-specific gene expression in a species without sex chromosomes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Mother's Curse effects on lifespan and aging.Frontiers in aging · 2024Review
- The role of mitochondria in sex- and age-specific gene expression in a species without sex chromosomes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Mitonuclear interactions modulate nutritional preference.Biology letters · 2023Article
- Sexual antagonism in sequential hermaphrodites.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
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- Sex-biased gene expression in nutrient-sensing pathways.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Mapping mitonuclear epistasis using a novel recombinant yeast population.PLoS genetics · 2023Article
- Mitochondrial effects on fertility and longevity inProceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Investigating the Impact of a Curse: Diseases, Population Isolation, Evolution and the Mother's Curse.Genes · 2022Review
- Sex-the most underappreciated variable in research: insights from helminth-infected hosts.Veterinary research · 2022Review
- Variation in mitochondrial DNA affects locomotor activity and sleep in Drosophila melanogaster.Heredity · 2022Article
- A sex skew in life-history research: the problem of missing males.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Review
- Inheritance through the cytoplasm.Heredity · 2022Review
- Mitonuclear interactions alter sex-specific longevity in a species without sex chromosomes.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
The maternal inheritance of mitochondrial genomes entails a sex-specific selective sieve, whereby mutations in mitochondrial DNA can only respond to selection acting on females. In theory, this enables male-harming mutations to accumulate in mitochondrial genomes as long as they are neutral, beneficial, or only slightly deleterious to females. Ultimately, this bias could drive the evolution of male-specific mitochondrial mutation loads, an idea known as mother's curse. Earlier work on this hypothesis has mainly used small
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