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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
Abstract excerpt
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 become irreversibly fused as heteropolar doublets. The few pairs that successfully dissociate fail to undergo...
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