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Portrait of a species: Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Genetics - 1 Aug 2005
Pröschold Thomas, Harris Elizabeth H, Coleman Annette W
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Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, the first alga subject to a genome project, has been the object of numerous morphological, physiological, and genetic studies. The organism has two genetically determined mating types (plus and minus) and all stages of the simple life cycle can be evoked in culture. In the nearly 60 years since the first standard laboratory strains were isolated, numerous crosses and exchanges among...
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