GENETIC ANALYSIS IN THE COLONIA STRAIN OF PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM: HETEROTHALLIC STRAINS THAT MATE WITH AND ARE PARTIALLY ISOGENIC TO THE COLONIA STRAIN

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1 December 1974

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Genetics

Vol. 78 (4) , 1051-1062
https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/78.4.1051

Abstract

Amoebae of the Colonia (CL) strain, which normally produce plasmodia in clones, are shown to cross with mt3 and mt4 amoebae under appropriate conditions. Strains carrying mt3 and mt4 in a CL genetic background were constructed and used in the genetic analysis of mutants isolated in CL.

Keywords

COLONIA STRAIN
HETEROTHALLIC STRAINS
PRODUCE PLASMODIA
GENETIC BACKGROUND
CL GENETIC
STRAINS CARRYING
PARTIALLY ISOGENIC
MUTANTS ISOLATED
STRAIN AMOEBAE

This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:

Plasmodial Fusion and Lethal Interaction between Strains in a Myxomycete
Nature, 1967