The on‐again, off‐again relationship between mitochondrial genomes and species boundaries

DB Sloan, JC Havird, J Sharbrough - Molecular ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The study of reproductive isolation and species barriers frequently focuses on mitochondrial
genomes and has produced two alternative and almost diametrically opposed narratives. On …

Assessing the fitness consequences of mitonuclear interactions in natural populations

GE Hill, JC Havird, DB Sloan, RS Burton… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Metazoans exist only with a continuous and rich supply of chemical energy from oxidative
phosphorylation in mitochondria. The oxidative phosphorylation machinery that mediates …

Mitochondrial pathways in human health and aging

R Bornstein, B Gonzalez, SC Johnson - Mitochondrion, 2020 - Elsevier
Mitochondria are eukaryotic organelles known best for their roles in energy production and
metabolism. While often thought of as simply the 'powerhouse of the cell,'these organelles …

Investigating mitonuclear interactions in human admixed populations

AA Zaidi, KD Makova - Nature ecology & evolution, 2019 - nature.com
To function properly, mitochondria utilize products of 37 mitochondrial and> 1,000 nuclear
genes, which should be compatible with each other. Discordance between mitochondrial …

Efficiency of mitochondrial functioning as the fundamental biological mechanism of general intelligence (g).

DC Geary - Psychological Review, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
General intelligence or g is one of the most thoroughly studied concepts in the behavioral
sciences. Measures of intelligence are predictive of a wide range of educational …

Mitochondrial genetics

VF Gonçalves - Mitochondria in Health and in Sickness, 2019 - Springer
The maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is located inside every mitochondrion,
in variable number of copies, and it contains 37 crucial genes for cellular bioenergetics. This …

Mitochondrial replacement therapy: are mito-nuclear interactions likely to be a problem?

A Eyre-Walker - Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
It has been suggested that deleterious interactions between the mitochondrial and nuclear
genomes could pose a problem for mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT). This is …

Integrative approaches for studying mitochondrial and nuclear genome co-evolution in oxidative phosphorylation

P Sunnucks, HE Morales, AM Lamb, A Pavlova… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
In animals, interactions among gene products of mitochondrial and nuclear genomes
(mitonuclear interactions) are of profound fitness, evolutionary, and ecological significance …

[HTML][HTML] Evolutionary codependency: insights into the mitonuclear interaction landscape from experimental and wild Caenorhabditis nematodes

S Estes, ZP Dietz, V Katju, U Bergthorsson - Current Opinion in Genetics & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Caenorhabditis are versatile models for mitonuclear coevolution research.•C.
elegans mitochondrial DNA mutation spectra may reflect oxidative DNA damage.• …

Novel complex interactions between mitochondrial and nuclear DNA in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

A Schulmann, E Ryu, V Goncalves, B Rollins… - Complex …, 2019 - karger.com
Mitochondrial dysfunction has been associated with schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder
(BD). This review examines recent publications and novel associations between …