Dr. Emmanuel (Manolis) Ladoukasis Department of Biology, University of Crete
Wednesday 22nd October, 4.00 p.m., Stacey Lecture Theatre 1
During ’90s animal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was described as short, maternally inherited, non-recombining genome. Two decades later there is enough evidence to challenge these assumptions. In this talk I will present data, which show that both the maternal inheritance and the non-recombination of mtDNA might not be as strict as was previously believed. I will also suggest a hypothesis which couples maternal inheritance of mtDNA with heteroplasmy and recombination.