Evolution: Mitochondrial lodgers can take over in hermaphroditic snails

Lukas Schärer

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.039

Evolution: Mitochondrial lodgers can take over in hermaphroditic snails

Curr Biol. 2022 May 23;32(10):R477-R479. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.039.

Author

Lukas Schärer¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Zoological Institute, Vesalgasse 1, 4051 Basel, Switzerland. Electronic address: lukas.scharer@unibas.ch.

PMID: 35609548
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.039

Abstract

Mitochondria - the cell's power stations - are inherited uniparentally via eggs, not sperm. In hermaphroditic plants, they sometimes prevent their hosts from making pollen (and sperm), causing cytoplasmic male sterility. New evidence from a hermaphroditic freshwater snail now documents cytoplasmic male sterility in animals.

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Animals
Cytoplasm
Hermaphroditic Organisms*
Mitochondria*
Snails*