No passive sidekick: mitochondrial compensatory evolution during adaptation of ETC mutant lines in Caenorhabditis elegans
Vaishali Katju, Jean‐Loup Claret, Zachary P Dietz, Suzanne Estes, 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.
bioRxiv · Sep 10, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology