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Asexual transmission, non-suppressiveness and meiotic extinction of small plasmid-like derivatives of the mitochondrial DNA in Neurospora crassa.
Fungal genetics and biology : FG & B - 1 Feb 2006
Hausner Georg, Nummy Katherine A, Bertrand Helmut
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For reasons that are not obvious, sets of related plasmid-like elements that consist of short segments of DNA that overlap the 5' terminal region of the mitochondrial large-subunit rRNA gene sometimes appear spontaneously and become amplified in the mitochondria of some cytochrome-deficient and/or UV-sensitive mutants of Neurospora crassa. These elements are transmitted efficiently through hyphal anastomoses and...
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