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A mating type-linked mutation that disrupts the uniparental inheritance of chloroplast DNA also disrupts cell-size control in Chlamydomonas.
Molecular biology of the cell - 1 Dec 1995
Armbrust E V, Ibrahim A, Goodenough U W
Abstract excerpt
An intriguing feature of early zygote development in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is the active elimination of chloroplast DNA from the mating-type minus parent due presumably to the action of a zygote-specific nuclease. Meiotic progeny thus inherit chloroplast DNA almost exclusively from the mating-type plus parent. The plus-linked nuclear mutation mat3 prevents this selective destruction of minus chloroplast DNA...
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