Genetical Research

Table of Contents - 1977 - Volume 30, Issue 03  

Short paper

A plasmodial colour mutation in the Myxomycete Physarum polycephalum

R. W. Andersona1 p1

a1 Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, England

SUMMARY

A spontaneous mutation conferring white plasmodial colour on the Myxomycete Physarum polycephalum has been analysed. The mutant whi-1 allele is recessive to whi+ in both heterokaryotic and heterozygous plasmodia. The whi locus is unlinked to mt, npfA, fusA and leu.

(Received August 22 1977)

Correspondence:

p1 Present address: Room 56-720, Department of Biology, M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass. 02139, U.S.A.

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