title: Independent transfer of mitochondrial plasmids in Neurospora crassa.
abstract: In the ascomycete fungus Neurospora, the distribution of homologous mitochondrial plasmid DNAs in different species and among mitochondrial types of N. crassa suggests that these molecules have moved between lineages of clonally propagated mtDNA. Here we report direct evidence for independent inheritance of mitochondrial plasmids by sexual reproduction which may help explain the distribution of these molecules among mitochondrial lineages.
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, University of California, Berkeley 94720.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: May
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D015139:Blotting, Southern; D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D009491:Neurospora / Q000235:genetics*; D009492:Neurospora crassa / Q000235:genetics*; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D010957:Plasmids
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial