Article
Natural history of transposition in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: use of the AMT4 locus as an experimental system.
Genetics - 1 Aug 2006
Kim Kwang-Seo, Kustu Sydney, Inwood William
Abstract excerpt
The AMT4 locus of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, which we mapped to the long arm of chromosome 8, provides a good experimental system for the study of transposition. Most mutations that confer resistance to the toxic ammonium analog methylammonium are in AMT4 and a high proportion of spontaneous mutations are caused by transposon-related events. Among the 15 such events that we have characterized at...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
- Chromosomes
- DNA, Algal
- Drug Resistance
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genes, Protozoan
- Methylamines
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
