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Bolen PL, Gillham NW, Boynton JE. Evidence for persistence of chloroplast markers in the heteroplasmic state in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Curr Genet 2013; 2:159-67. [PMID: 24189807 DOI: 10.1007/bf00420628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/1980] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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In the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, reciprocal crosses between strains carrying non-allelic chloroplast mutations to streptomycin dependence (sd-u) produce streptomycin sensitive (sd-u (+)) recombinant progeny. Transfer of these sd-u (+)progeny to streptomycin-containing medium results in a much higher frequency of recovery of streptomycin dependent isolates than expected by mutation. Failure to recover the more commonly encountered class of streptomycin resistant mutants also suggests that mutation is not responsible for appearance of the new dependent isolates. Backcrosses of these new sd-u isolates to strains carrying the original sd-u mutations demonstrate their allelism with the sd-u mutation contributed by the mt (+)parent. Earlier work by Schimmer and Arnold (1969, 1970a-d) indicated that newly isolated sensitive revertants of the streptomycin dependent mutant sd-u-3-18 also yielded high frequencies of sd-u cells but these were never analyzed genetically. We have now obtained new sd-u. isolates from streptomycin sensitive revertants of sd-u-318 and shown them all to be allelic with the original sd-u3-18 mutation. Thus "hidden" sd-u alleles can coexist with sd-u (+)alleles in heteroplasmic cells. These heteroplasmic cells are streptomycin sensitive in phenotype and may arise in crosses or from new mutation.
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- P L Bolen
- Departments of Botany and Zoology, Duke University, 27706, Durham, NC, USA
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Lin H, Kwan AL, Dutcher SK. Synthesizing and salvaging NAD: lessons learned from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. PLoS Genet 2010; 6:e1001105. [PMID: 20838591 PMCID: PMC2936527 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2010] [Accepted: 08/02/2010] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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The essential coenzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) plays important roles in metabolic reactions and cell regulation in all organisms. Bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals use different pathways to synthesize NAD+. Our molecular and genetic data demonstrate that in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas NAD+ is synthesized from aspartate (de novo synthesis), as in plants, or nicotinamide, as in mammals (salvage synthesis). The de novo pathway requires five different enzymes: L-aspartate oxidase (ASO), quinolinate synthetase (QS), quinolate phosphoribosyltransferase (QPT), nicotinate/nicotinamide mononucleotide adenylyltransferase (NMNAT), and NAD+ synthetase (NS). Sequence similarity searches, gene isolation and sequencing of mutant loci indicate that mutations in each enzyme result in a nicotinamide-requiring mutant phenotype in the previously isolated nic mutants. We rescued the mutant phenotype by the introduction of BAC DNA (nic2-1 and nic13-1) or plasmids with cloned genes (nic1-1 and nic15-1) into the mutants. NMNAT, which is also in the de novo pathway, and nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT) constitute the nicotinamide-dependent salvage pathway. A mutation in NAMPT (npt1-1) has no obvious growth defect and is not nicotinamide-dependent. However, double mutant strains with the npt1-1 mutation and any of the nic mutations are inviable. When the de novo pathway is inactive, the salvage pathway is essential to Chlamydomonas for the synthesis of NAD+. A homolog of the human SIRT6-like gene, SRT2, is upregulated in the NS mutant, which shows a longer vegetative life span than wild-type cells. Our results suggest that Chlamydomonas is an excellent model system to study NAD+ metabolism and cell longevity. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) is an essential coenzyme. NAD+ is necessary for electron transfer in many metabolic reactions. NAD+ functions as a substrate for several enzymes, one of which is sirtuin, an enzyme involved in gene regulation and aging. NAD+ can be synthesized either from amino acids (de novo) or metabolites (salvage). Given the importance of NAD+, enzymes involved in NAD+ synthesis are targets for drug discovery. In the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas we investigated both the de novo and salvage NAD+ biosynthetic pathways. Mutations in the plant-like de novo synthesis pathway lead to a nicotinamide-requiring phenotype. We identified an insertional mutation in the first enzyme in the mammal-like salvage pathway; it has no growth defect in cells with an active de novo synthesis pathway but causes lethality when the de novo synthesis pathway is inactive. Coupled with NAD+ biosynthesis, sirtuin is involved in NAD+ consumption. Our study links upregulation of a sirtuin gene with extended life span in the nic13-1 mutant strain, which has a defective de novo synthesis pathway and suggests that Chlamydomonas is an excellent genetic model to study NAD+ metabolism and cell longevity.
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- Huawen Lin
- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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GILLHAM NW. The nature of exceptions to the pattern of uniparental inheritance for high level streptomycin resistance in Chlamydomonas reinhardi. Genetics 1998; 48:431-9. [PMID: 13947922 PMCID: PMC1210483 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/48.3.431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Piperno G, Mead K, LeDizet M, Moscatelli A. Mutations in the "dynein regulatory complex" alter the ATP-insensitive binding sites for inner arm dyneins in Chlamydomonas axonemes. J Cell Biol 1994; 125:1109-17. [PMID: 8195292 PMCID: PMC2120054 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.125.5.1109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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To understand mechanisms of regulation of dynein activity along and around the axoneme we further characterized the "dynein regulatory complex" (drc). The lack of some axonemal proteins, which together are referred to as drc, causes the suppression of flagellar paralysis of radial spoke and central pair mutants. The drc is also an adapter involved in the ATP-insensitive binding of I2 and I3 inner dynein arms to doublet microtubules. Evidence supporting these conclusions was obtained through analyses of five drc mutants: pf2, pf3, suppf3, suppf4, and suppf5. Axonemes from drc mutants lack part of I2 and I3 inner dynein arms as well as subsets of seven drc components (apparent molecular weight from 29,000 to 192,000). In the absence of ATP-Mg, dynein-depleted axonemes from the same mutants bind I2 and I3 inner arms at both ATP-sensitive and -insensitive sites. At ATP-insensitive sites, they bind I2 and I3 inner arms to an extent that depends on the drc defect. This evidence suggested to us that the drc forms one binding site for the I2 and I3 inner arms on the A part of doublet microtubules.
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- G Piperno
- Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York 10029
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Piperno G, Mead K, Shestak W. The inner dynein arms I2 interact with a "dynein regulatory complex" in Chlamydomonas flagella. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1992; 118:1455-63. [PMID: 1387875 PMCID: PMC2289619 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.118.6.1455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 191] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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We provide indirect evidence that six axonemal proteins here referred to as "dynein regulatory complex" (drc) are located in close proximity with the inner dynein arms I2 and I3. Subsets of drc subunits are missing from five second-site suppressors, pf2, pf3, suppf3, suppf4, and suppf5, that restore flagellar motility but not radial spoke structure of radial spoke mutants. The absence of drc components is correlated with a deficiency of all four heavy chains of inner arms I2 and I3 from axonemes of suppressors pf2, pf3, suppf3, and suppf5. Similarly, inner arm subunits actin, p28, and caltractin/centrin, or subsets of them, are deficient in pf2, pf3, and suppf5. Recombinant strains carrying one of the mutations pf2, pf3, or suppf5 and the inner arm mutation ida4 are more defective for I2 inner arm heavy chains than the parent strains. This evidence indicates that at least one subunit of the drc affects the assembly of and interacts with the inner arms I2.
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- G Piperno
- Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Mount Sinai Medical School, New York 10029
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Fleming GH, Boynton JE, Gillham NW. The cytoplasmic ribosomes of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: characterization of antibiotic sensitivity and cycloheximide-resistant mutants. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1987; 210:419-28. [PMID: 3481023 DOI: 10.1007/bf00327192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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In vitro protein synthesis was used to characterize the antibiotic sensitivity of cytoplasmic ribosomes from wild-type and antibiotic-resistant strains of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Cytoplasmic ribosomes from two cycloheximide-resistant mutants, act-1 and act-2, were resistant to the antibiotic in vitro. The alteration effected by the act-1 mutation, which was dominant in diploids, was localized to the large subunit of the cytoplasmic ribosomes, but no ribosomal protein alterations were detected using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. The act-2 mutation, which was semidominant in diploids, was frequently associated with a charge alteration in the large subunit ribosomal protein (r-protein) cyL38 that segregated independently from the antibiotic-resistant phenotype in crosses.
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- G H Fleming
- Department of Botany, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706
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Ford C, Wang W. Three new yellow loci in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1980; 179:259-63. [PMID: 6936595 DOI: 10.1007/bf00425452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Three phenotypically 'yellow', mendelian mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii have been isolated and tested for allelism with the yellow mutant y-1 a1 and with each other. The three mutants represent three new yellow loci, two of which are located on linkage group I. Like y-1a, the mutants accumulate protochlorophyllide when grown under dim light, but have a wildtype phenotype when grown in the light. We conclude that the control of light-independent protochlorophyllide reduction is more complex than has been thought previously.
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Huang B, Rifkin MR, Luck DJ. Temperature-sensitive mutations affecting flagellar assembly and function in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. J Cell Biol 1977; 72:67-85. [PMID: 830657 PMCID: PMC2110986 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.72.1.67] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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A series of conditional mutants of the algal, biflagellate Chlamydomonas reinhardtii with temperature-sensitive defects in flagellar assembly and function were isolated. The genetics and phenotypes of 21 mutants displaying a rapid alteration in flagellar function upon shift from the permissive (20 degrees C) to the restrictive (32 degrees C) temperatures are described. These mutants designated as "drop-down" or dd-mutants have been placed in four categories on the basis of their defective phenotypes: (a) dd-assembly mutants - the preformed flagella are resorbed at 32 degrees C and reassembly of flagella is inhibited; (b) dd-fragile flagella mutants - the flagella are lost by detachment at 32 degrees C, but can be reassembled; (c) dd-motility mutants - the flagella are retained at 32 degrees C, but are functionally defective; (d) dd-lethal mutants - display combined defects in flagellar function and cell growth. Tetrad analysis of the mutants back-crossed to wild-type, recombination analysis of intermutant crosses, and complementation tests in the construction of heterozygous diploid strains indicate that at least 14 nuclear genetic loci are represented among 21 mutants. The availability of temperature-sensitive mutations affecting the assembly and function of the flagellum suggests that the morphogenesis of this complex eukaryotic organelle is amenable to genetic dissection.
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Methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) mutagenesis of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii at different stages of the synchronous cell-cycle revealed the following results. (1) Induction of phenotypically distinct Mendelian (nuclear), str-50 and non-Mendelian (chloroplast) str-500P, streptomycin resistant mutants was relatively high during the first portion of the cell-cycle when chloroplast DNA replication is known to occur. (2) A second and more pronounced interval of enhanced Mendelian, str-50 mutant induction was observed near the middle of the cell-cycle when the initial stages of nuclear DNA replication occur. Induction of non-Mendelian, str-500P mutants was inconsistent during this period. (3) The incidence of mutants from a second phenotypically distinct class of non-Mendelian streptomycin-resistant mutants (str-500D) was not increased over control levels at any stage of the cell-cycle examined. It is concluded that MMS, like N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG), may not be the most suitable general mutagen for this alga because its enhanced mutagenesis of cells in the nuclear S phase could result in multiple closely linked mutations.
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Sato C. A conditional cell division mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardii having an increased level of colchicine resistance. Exp Cell Res 1976; 101:251-9. [PMID: 964308 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(76)90375-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Martin NC, Goodenough UW. Gametic differentiation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. I. Production of gametes and their fine structure. J Cell Biol 1975; 67:587-605. [PMID: 1202015 PMCID: PMC2111648 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.67.3.587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Gametogenesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has been studied in mating-type plus cells utilizing several different culture conditions, all of which are shown to depend on the depletion of nitrogen from the medium, and the fine structure of gametes prepared under these conditions has been compared by using thin sections of fixed materials. We document alterations in ribosome levels, in chromatin morphology, in starch levels, in the organization of chloroplast membranes, and in the appearance of nuclear envelope and endoplasmic reticulum membranes during gametogenesis. We also noted the acquisition of two new organelles: a mating structure (Friedman, L., A. L. Colwin, and L. H. Colwin. 1968. j. cell Sci. 3:115-128; goodenough, U. W., and R. L. Weiss. 1975. J. Cell Biol. 67:623-637), and Golgi-derived vesicles containing a homogeneous material. We chart the time course of these morphological changes during synchronous gametogenesis. We note that many of these changes may represent adjustments to nitrogen starvation rather than direct features of gametic differentiation, and we also document that cells can differentiate so that they survive conditions of nitrogen starvation for many weeks after they become gametes. We conclude that metabolic alterations, the acquisition of mating ability, and the preparation for long-term survival are all elicited in this organism by nitrogen withdrawal, and we discuss how the various structural alterations observed in this study may relate to these three interrelated avenues of cellular differentiation.
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Wang WY, Wang WL, Boynton JE, Gillham NW. Genetic control of chlorophyll biosynthesis in Chlamydomonas. Analysis of mutants at two loci mediating the conversion of protoporphyrin-IX to magnesium protoporphyrin. J Cell Biol 1974; 63:806-23. [PMID: 4436384 PMCID: PMC2109367 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.63.3.806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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In this report we describe two nonallelic Mendelian protoporphyrin accumulating mutants br(s)-1 and br(c)-1. Results of experiments with these mutants lead us to postulate that porphyrin biosynthesis branches into light and dark steps between protoporphyrin-IX and magnesium protoporphyrin. We hypothesize that the br(c) locus controls a dark step while the br(s) locus either controls a step in the main pathway before the branch or mediates the preparation of the magnesium ion for its insertion into protoporphyrin-IX. The br(s)-1 mutant is thought to be light sensitive because a block prior to the branch point in the porphyrin pathway prevents chlorophyll formation in either the light or the dark. The br(c)-1 mutant, which also accumulates protoporphyrin in the dark, forms chlorophyll and chloroplast lamellae when transferred to the light, showing that function of the porphyrin pathway is normal in the light.
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Schimmer O, Werner R. Mutagenic effect of aflatoxin B1 on nuclear and extranuclear DNA in Chlamydomonas reinhardii. Mutat Res 1974; 26:423-5. [PMID: 4414745 DOI: 10.1016/s0027-5107(74)80012-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Chu-Der OM, Chiang KS. Interaction between mendelian and non-mendelian genes. Regulation of the transmission of non-mendelian genes by a mendelian gene in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1974; 71:153-7. [PMID: 4521048 PMCID: PMC387955 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.71.1.153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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The non-Mendelian genetic element of a given mating type of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii was first doubly marked by succesive mutageneses and then transferred into a number of offspring cells of the opposite mating type. In subsequent crosses of these offspring clones, the transmission pattern of the original non-Mendelian markers was analyzed. The results indicate that the mating-type gene of a given cell regulates the transmission and perhaps the recombination of the non-Mendelian genes regardless of whether the non-Mendelian markers were isolated originally in the same cell or obtained from another cell of the opposite mating type through genetic transmission. The regulation of the transmission of non-Mendelian genes in C. reinhardtii is thus apparently different from the autonomous control of the transmission of non-Mendelian mitochondrial genes in yeast by a genetic factor located on the mitochondrial genome.
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Lee RW, Jones RF. Induction of Mendelian and non-Mendelian streptomycin resistant mutants during the synchronous cell cycle of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1973; 121:99-108. [PMID: 4693929 DOI: 10.1007/bf00277524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Stein JR. GROWTH AND MATING OF GONIUM PECTORALE (VOLVOCALES) IN DEFINED MEDIA(1). JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY 1966; 2:23-28. [PMID: 27053021 DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.1966.tb04587.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Growth in defined media of 32 populations of Gonium pectorale was studied to learn more about the sexual isolation reported for this species. The 23 populations containing both mating types (+ & -) icere also studied for the ability to form zygotes in defined media. A preliminary study showed that some populations grew and reproduced sexually in a defined mineral medium, whereas others appeared to require exogenous organic materials for growth and/or zygote formation. The diverse reactions exhibited by the populations indicate physiological races which may explain, in part, the occurrence of sexual isolation.
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- J R Stein
- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Gillham NW. Linkage and recombination between nonchromosomal mutations in Chlamydomonas reinhardi. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1965; 54:1560-7. [PMID: 5218912 PMCID: PMC300514 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.54.6.1560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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