Article
Non-locus-specific polygenes giving responses to selection for gene conversion frequencies in Ascobolus immersus.
Genetics - 1 Aug 1995
Zwolinski S A, Lamb B C
Abstract excerpt
Selection for higher and lower meiotic conversion frequencies was investigated in the fungus Ascobolus immersus. Strains carrying the same known gene conversion control factors, which have major effects on conversion frequencies at their specific target locus, sometimes gave significant differences in conversion frequency. Selection for high or low conversion frequencies at the w1-78 site was practiced for five...
Topics
- Alleles
- Ascomycota
- Crosses, Genetic
- Fungal Proteins
- Gene Conversion
- Genes, Fungal
- Haploidy
- Meiosis
- Selection, Genetic
