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- From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
- Subject: Re: Eve Mitochondia?
- References: <30608@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1993Jan21.234925.5246@trl.oz.au> <1993Jan22.144307.22509@nastar.uucp>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:49:50 GMT
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- Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
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- phardie@nastar.uucp (Pete Hardie) writes:
- >
- >What mechanism is proposed that gets paternal mitochrondial DNA into the
- >zygote?
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- Spermatozoa carry mitochondria in the "collar" region. Occasionally (<1/1000,
- I think) the collar can be absorbed into the ovum along with the head.
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- BTW, the hereditary medium in mitochondria is DNA, not RNA--they're not
- retroviruses, you know....
-
- Seth L. Blumberg \ "The whole thing was an accident. No saboteur
- slb22@columbia.edu (play) \ could have been so wildly optimistic as to think
- sethb@ctr.columbia.edu (work) \ he could destroy an airplane this way."
- > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
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