Study Suggests Male and Female Fertility and Longevity are Affected by Mitochondrial Genome Mutations
New evidence suggests that mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) may significantly affect fertility and life expectancy, with important differences in male and female organisms. The study, led by PhD student Florencia Camus (School of Biological Sciences at Monash University) and entitled “Single Nucleotides in the mtDNA Sequence Modify Mitochondrial Molecular…