He thinks the Central Dogma of mitochondrial DNA needs to be rethought.
Tag: mitochondrial DNA
Darwinsplaining the kids who get mitochondrial DNA from their dads
It was hardly heard of before and hardly widely predicted; now the Darwinian question is, why isn’t it more common? Why? Because there are two conflicting evolutionary forces at work. In the short-term, mixing mitochondria can be beneficial to individuals because the father’s mitochondria, say, can compensate for a harmful mutation in the mother’s mitochondria. […]