Extrachromosomal Inheritance
"Extrachromosomal Inheritance" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Vertical transmission of hereditary characters by DNA from cytoplasmic organelles such as MITOCHONDRIA; CHLOROPLASTS; and PLASTIDS, or from PLASMIDS or viral episomal DNA.
| Descriptor ID |
D005111
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G05.420.275
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| Concept/Terms |
Cytoplasmic Inheritance- Cytoplasmic Inheritance
- Inheritance, Cytoplasmic
- Extranuclear Inheritance
- Inheritance, Extranuclear
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Cech TR, Pardue ML. Electron microscopy of DNA crosslinked with trimethylpsoralen: test of the secondary structure of eukaryotic inverted repeat sequences. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1976 Aug; 73(8):2644-8.