Article
Mapping the mating type locus of Tetrahymena thermophila: meiotic linkage of mat to the ribosomal RNA gene.
Developmental genetics - 1 Jan 1992
Bleyman L K, Baum M P, Bruns P J, Orias E
Abstract excerpt
Tetrahymena thermophila has a multiple mating type system. While a sexually mature cell usually expresses only one mating type, its germline (micronucleus) carries the genetic potential for 5 to 7 mating types. The set of allowed mating types is specified by the mat locus. The choice of which particular mating type is expressed by a cell reflects a somatically inherited, developmentally programmed differentiation...
Topics
- Animals
- Crosses, Genetic
- Genetic Linkage
- Genotype
- Meiosis
- RNA, Ribosomal
- Reproduction
- Tetrahymena thermophila