Delimiting the frequency of paternal leakage of mitochondrial DNA in chinook salmon.
We analyzed embryos of a wild-return hatchery population of chinook salmon for the presence of paternal mtDNA. None of the 10,082 offspring examined revealed paternally transmitted DNA, delimiting the maximum frequency of paternal leakage in this system to 0.03% (power of 0.95) and 0.05% (power of 0.99).
Wolff
Jonci N
JN
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8001, New Zealand. jonci.wolff@pg.canterbury.ac.nz
Gandre
Sandra
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Kalinin
Aleksander
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Gemmell
Neil J
NJ
D000818:Animals; D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005260:Female; D005838:Genotype; D008297:Male; D010334:Paternity; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D012474:Salmon / Q000196:embryology / Q000235:genetics*
D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial