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Mother's curse is pervasive across a large mitonuclear Drosophila panel
22 March 2021
The maternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA modulates male life-history traits in a more generalisable way than previously demonstrated.
A large Drosophila mitonuclear panel comprising nine nuclear genomes, each coupled to nine mtDNA haplotypes for a total of 81 strains was screened for wing size, as this trait is known to differ between the sexes.