Extrachromosomal recombination is deranged in the rec2 mutant of Ustilago maydis.

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Extrachromosomal recombination is deranged in the rec2 mutant of Ustilago maydis.

Genetics - 1 Dec 1991

Fotheringham S, Holloman W K

Abstract excerpt

Transformation of a leu1 auxotroph of Ustilago maydis to prototrophy with an autonomously replicating plasmid containing the selectable LEU1 gene was found to be efficient regardless of whether the transforming DNA was circular or linear. When pairs of autonomously replicating plasmids bearing no...

Topics

DNA, Fungal
Genes, Fungal
Mutation
Nucleic Acid Conformation
Nucleic Acid Heteroduplexes
Plasmids
Recombination, Genetic
Transformation, Genetic
Ustilago

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