Positive evidence for defective germ nucleus generated by transplantation in Paramecium tetraurelia.
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Non-Mendelian inheritance induced by gene amplification in the germ nucleus of Paramecium tetraurelia.
A genetic investigation of strain d4-95, which carries a recessive mutant allele (pwB(95)) of pawn-B, one of the controlling elements of voltage-dependent calcium channels in Paramecium tetraurelia, revealed a non-Mendelian feature. Progeny of the cross between d4-95 and wild type often expressed a clonally stable mutant phenotype, even when they had a wild-type gene. The mutant phenotype was a...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Japanese Journal of Genetics
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0021-504X,1880-5787
DOI: 10.1266/jjg.56.279