Marina Khachaturyan

The paper compares heteroplasmy durations in plant mitochondria and plastids, finding plastid alleles persist longer despite similar mutation rates.

This paper develops a somatic genetic clock to estimate age in clonal species by analyzing fixed somatic genetic variation, demonstrating its application in Zostera marina and revealing genet ages up to 1,403 years.

The paper shows that the mitochondrial chromosome composition of Zostera marina remains stable across worldwide populations over 350,000 years despite individual variability.