A mating type-linked mutation that disrupts the uniparental inheritance of chloroplast DNA also disrupts cell-size control in Chlamydomonas.

doi:10.1091/mbc.6.12.1807

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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...

Topics

Animals
Blotting, Southern
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Chloroplasts
Crosses, Genetic
DNA, Plant
Floxuridine
Microscopy, Electron
Mutagenesis
Phenotype
Zygote

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