Article
The unusual sexual preferences of a chlamydomonas mutant may provide insight into mating-type evolution.
Genetics - 1 Jan 1991
Van Winkle-Swift K P, Thuerauf D J
Abstract excerpt
Chlamydomonas monoica undergoes intraclonal mating-type differentiation (homothallism). Although the species differs in this regard from the more commonly studied heterothallic C. reinhardtii, cell-cell interactions and progression of the sexual cycle are similar for many homothallic and heteroth...
Topics
- Alleles
- Biological Evolution
- Chlamydomonas
- Chloroplasts
- Crosses, Genetic
- Epistasis, Genetic
- Genetic Linkage
- Genetic Markers
- Mutation
