Cellular and Molecular Basis of Mitochondrial Inheritance: Mitochondrial Disease and Fitness

This new volume of our successful book series Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology is focused on mihondrial inheritance in humans and both vertebrate and invertrebate animals including Drosophila, C. elegans, bivalve molusc Mytilus and livesk mammals. Special consideration is given to cellular mechanisms promoting uniparental inheritance of mihondria and mihondrial genes, evolutionary perspectives, and biomedical and epidemiological considerations. Contributed by five distinguished mihondrial research teams from around the world, this volume will target a wide audience of physiologists, anatomists, cell, and developmental and evolutionary biologists, as well as physicians, veterinarians, livesk specialists and biomedical researchers.