Instability of a yellow mutation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is not due to TOC1 elements.

Abstract excerpt

yc4 is an unstable yellow-in-the dark mutation found in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. yc4 reverts to the wild-type green-in-the-dark phenotype at a frequency of 1 X 10(-4) revertants per cell division. We have tested whether mutation and reversion of yc4 is due to the inse...

Topics

• Blotting, Southern
• Chlamydomonas
• DNA Transposable Elements
• Mutation
• Phenotype
• Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid