Biologists have traced the stability of plant mitochondrial genomes to a particular gene – MSH1 – that plants have but animals don’t. Their experiments could lend insight into why animal mitochondrial genomes tend to mutate.
Biologists have traced the stability of plant mitochondrial genomes to a particular gene – MSH1 – that plants have but animals don’t. Their experiments could lend insight into why animal mitochondrial genomes tend to mutate.