An integrase of endogenous retrovirus is involved in maternal mitochondrial DNA inheritance of the mouse

Maternal modulation of the inheritable m

Maternal modulation of the inheritable meiosis I error Dipl I in mouse oocytes is associated with the type of mitochondrial DNA

✍ Friedrich Beermann; Edith Hummler; Ulrich Franke; Ingo Hansmann 📂 Article 📅 1988 🏛 Springer 🌐 English ⚖ 273 KB

The ovulation of diploid oocytes, abnormally arrested at or during the first meiotic division, is an inheritable trait (DiplI) in mice and modulated by a maternally transmitted factor. By repeated backcrossing, mouse strains with identical nuclear encoded genes and differing only in their mitochondr