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Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of Mytilus trossulus from the Gulf of Gdansk (southern Baltic) and M. edulis from Swansea Bay, South Wales, UK, collected in 1991, was studied by restriction-enzyme analysis. These two species were more similar to each other in haplotype frequencies than either was to M. galloprovincialis from Britain. M. trossulus resembles M. edulis in having a high frequency of heteroplasmy restricted to males. However, in contrast to M. edulis where restriction-site heteroplasmy predominates, in M. trossulus heteroplasmic individuals possess two genomes which differ in length by up to 3 kilobases.
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Wenne, R., Skibinski, D.O.F. Mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy in European populations of the mussel Mytilus trossulus . Marine Biology 122, 619–624 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00350683
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