Leah J. Darwin

The paper tests if mitochondrial backgrounds influence nuclear allele fate during hybridization, finding no evidence of such effects despite expected incompatibilities.

The paper tests the Mothers Curse hypothesis by comparing mtDNA effects on performance traits in Drosophila across different nuclear backgrounds, finding greater phenotypic variation in females than males, contrary to the hypothesis.

The paper quantifies the relative contributions of mitochondrial, nuclear, and environmental variation to complex traits in Drosophila, finding that genetic and environmental interactions outweigh mitonuclear coevolution.