Conjugal blocks in Tetrahymena pattern mutants and their cytoplasmic rescue. II. janus A.

doi:10.1016/0012-1606(91)90261-z

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Conjugal blocks in Tetrahymena pattern mutants and their cytoplasmic rescue. II. janus A.

Developmental biology - 1 Dec 1991

Cole E S, Frankel J

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A conjugal block phenotype is described for the Tetrahymena pattern mutant, janA. janA exhibits a characteristic "janus" phenotype in which cells develop with a global mirror-image duplication of the ventral pattern of cortical organelles. janA cells are competent to form mating pairs, but later...

Topics

Animals
Cell Nucleus
Conjugation, Genetic
Cytoplasm
Genes, Lethal
Mutation
Tetrahymena thermophila

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