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Identification of the minus-dominance gene ortholog in the mating-type locus of Gonium pectorale.
Genetics - 1 Jan 2008
Hamaji Takashi, Ferris Patrick J, Coleman Annette W, Waffenschmidt Sabine, Takahashi Fumio, Nishii Ichiro, Nozaki Hisayoshi
Abstract excerpt
The evolution of anisogamy/oogamy in the colonial Volvocales might have occurred in an ancestral isogamous colonial organism like Gonium pectorale. The unicellular, close relative Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has a mating-type (MT) locus harboring several mating-type-specific genes, including one involved in mating-type determination and another involved in the function of the tubular mating structure in only one of...
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