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New insights into the role of the maize ameiotic1 locus.
Genetics - 1 Nov 1997
Golubovskaya I, Avalkina N, Sheridan W F
Abstract excerpt
In maize the am1-1 mutant allele results in both the male and female meiocytes undergoing mitosis in place of the meiotic divisions. A second mutant allele am1-praI enables both the male and female meiocytes to proceed to the early zygotene stage of meiotic prophase I before being blocked. Here we report on three new alleles that allow all male meiocytes to undergo mitosis but in female meiocytes approximately...
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