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Directed replacement of mt A by mt a-1 effects a mating type switch in Neurospora crassa.
Genetics - 1 Sept 1994
Chang S, Staben C
Abstract excerpt
To test the functions of a mating type genes, we developed an efficient strategy to select transformants of Neurospora crassa in which resident A mating type DNA was replaced by cloned DNA from the mt a idiomorph. Cloned a idiomorphic DNA could specify all functions, including fertility, of a mating type, but only when it replaced A DNA at the mating type locus. Only the mt a-1 region of the a idiomorph was...
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