Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
No passive sidekick: mitochondrial compensatory evolution during adaptation of ETC mutant lines in Caenorhabditis elegans
Vaishali Katju, Jean‐Loup Claret, Zachary P Dietz…·Ulfar Bergthorsson
This study shows mtDNA can rapidly adapt to nuclear ETC mutations in C. elegans, with compensatory mutations in nd-1 significantly improving fitness.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.05.749583