A developmental mutation (npfL1) resulting in cell death in Physarum polycephalum.

doi:10.1099/00221287-138-12-2575

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A developmental mutation (npfL1) resulting in cell death in Physarum polycephalum.

Journal of general microbiology - 1 Dec 1992

Bailey J, Solnica-Krezel L, Anderson R W, Dee J

Abstract excerpt

In Physarum, microscopic uninucleate amoebae develop into macroscopic multinucleate plasmodia. In the mutant strain, RA614, plasmodium development is blocked. RA614 carries a recessive mutation (npfL1) in a gene that functions in sexual as well as apogamic development. In npfL+ apogamic developme...

Topics

Animals
Crosses, Genetic
Fluorescent Antibody Technique
Genes, Protozoan
Interphase
Microscopy, Fluorescence
Microtubules
Mitosis
Morphogenesis
Mutagenesis
Phenotype
Physarum polycephalum
Recombination, Genetic
Tubulin

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