UNIPARENTAL INHERITANCE AND RECOMBINATION AS STRATEGIES TO AVOID COMPETITION AND COMBAT MULLER’S RATCHET AMONG MITOCHONDRIA IN NATURAL POPULATIONS OF THE FUNGUS AMANITA PHALLOIDES

Uniparental Inheritance and Recombination as Strategies to Avoid Competition and Combat Muller’s Ratchet among Mitochondria in Natural Populations of the Fungus Amanita phalloides

Uniparental inheritance of mitochondria enables organisms to avoid the costs of intracellular competition among potentially selfish organelles.By preventing recombination, uniparental inheritance may also here render a mitochondrial lineage effectively asexual and expose mitochondria to the deleterious effects of Muller’s ratchet.Even among anima

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Identification and Functional Assessment of the First Placental Adhesin of Treponema pallidum That May Play Critical Role in Congenital Syphilis

Syphilis is a global, re-emerging sexually transmitted infection and congenital syphilis remains a major cause of adverse pregnancy outcomes due to bacterial infection in developing nations with a high rate of fetus loss.The molecular mechanisms involved in pathogenesis of the causative agent, Treponema pallidum subsp.pallidum remain poorly underst

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Moderating Influence of Stakeholder Knowledge on the Relationship between Social Reporting and Sustainability Accounting in the Tea Sector in Mount Kenya Region

In accounting, financial reporting dominantly focus on profits.There is growing pressure on social sensitivity of accounting.Sustainable Development Goals advocate for concern to the environment.Some researchers have endeavored to demonstrate how accountancy need to respond to the social concerns beyond traditional goal of profit maximization that

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