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Stable maintenance of duplicated chromosomes carrying the mutant pwB gene in Paramecium tetraurelia.
Genetical research - 1 Aug 2001
Matsuda A, Takahashi M
Abstract excerpt
An allele of the behavioural mutant pawn-B96 has been reported as a typical recessive gene but was found to show a peculiar inheritance. When the F2 progeny from crosses between the wild-type and pwB96 were obtained by autogamy, the 1:1 phenotypic segregation ratio was observed as expected. However, two-thirds of the wild-type progeny in the F2 were thought to be heterozygotes because they became mixed progeny of...
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