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Instability of a yellow mutation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is not due to TOC1 elements.
Current genetics - 1 Aug 1990
Day A, Rochaix J D
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 insertion and excision of the C. reinhardtii transposon TOC1. Southern blots showed differences in the distribution of TOC1...
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