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Absence of Mother's Curse for performance traits among divergent mtDNAs in heterozygous nuclear backgrounds in Drosophila.
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Maternal inheritance allows selection to act on mtDNA-encoded effects in females but prevents direct selection on mtDNA in males. Mutations that are deleterious in males but neutral or beneficial in females can persist in populations. This predicts that mtDNA-based phenotypic variation should be more common among males than among females, a pattern referred to as Mother's Curse (MC). Most studies of MC place alternative mtDNAs on common homozygous nuclear chromosomal backgrounds, a condition not common in nature. Moreover, it is not known whether MC effects accumulate as mtDNAs acquire nucleotide substitutions between populations or species. We tested the MC hypothesis using mtDNAs from
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