Rate of phenotypic assortment in Tetrahymena thermophila.

doi:10.1002/dvg.1020130206

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Rate of phenotypic assortment in Tetrahymena thermophila.

Developmental genetics - 1 Jan 1992

Doerder F P, Deak J C, Lief J H

Abstract excerpt

During vegetative, asexual reproduction in heterozygous Tetrahymena thermophila, the macronucleus divides amitotically to produce clonal lineages that express either one or the other allele but not both. Because such phenotypic assortment has been described for every locus studied, its mechanism...

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Animals
Computer Simulation
Heterozygote
Kinetics
Phenotype
Tetrahymena thermophila

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