Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Site Tools

  • AAAS
  • Subscribe
  • Feedback

Site Search

Search Advanced

Science 21 June 1985:
Vol. 228. no. 4706, pp. 1446 - 1448
DOI: 10.1126/science.228.4706.1446
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Articles

Mitochondrial DNA Size Variation Within Individual Crickets

RICHARD G. HARRISON 1, DAVID M. RAND 1, and WARD C. WHEELER 1

1 Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511

The mitochondrial DNA's of two closely related cricket species (genus Gryllus) share a size polymorphism as evidenced by analysis of restriction fragment patterns. Moreover, 12 of 100 field-collected crickets are heteroplasmic, that is these individuals have more than one size class of mitochondrial DNA. No heteroplasmy for restriction site variation is observed. Intraindividual variation in cricket mitochondrial DNA provides a useful marker for studying the transmission genetics of mitochondrial DNA. Available data on patterns of variation in mothers and offspring suggest that random segregation of mitochondrial DNA variants does not occur rapidly in cricket germ-cell lineages.

Submitted on October 18, 1984
Accepted on January 29, 1985


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Mitochondrial Pseudogenes Are Pervasive and Often Insidious in the Snapping Shrimp Genus Alpheus.
S. T. Williams and N. Knowlton (2001)
Mol. Biol. Evol. 18, 1484-1493
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Organization of the Large Mitochondrial Genome in the Isopod Armadillidium vulgare.
R. Raimond, I. Marcadé, D. Bouchon, T. Rigaud, J.-P. Bossy, and C. Souty-Grosset (1999)
Genetics 151, 203-210
   Abstract »    Full Text »
Heteroplasmy suggests limited biparental inheritance of Mytilus mitochondrial DNA.
W. Hoeh, K. Blakley, and W. Brown (1991)
Science 251, 1488-1490
   Abstract »    PDF »
Tandem duplication of D-loop and ribosomal RNA sequences in lizard mitochondrial DNA.
C Moritz and W. Brown (1986)
Science 233, 1425-1427
   Abstract »    PDF »


To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)