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Maternal inheritance of extranuclear mitochondrial markers in Aspergillus nidulans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Robert T. Rowlands  and
Geoffrey Turner
Robert T. Rowlands
Affiliation:
Department of Bacteriology, The Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD
Geoffrey Turner
Affiliation:
Department of Bacteriology, The Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD

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Maternal inheritance of extranuclear mitochondrial genes has been demonstrated in Aspergillus nidulans using the ‘blue’ ascospore colour mutants in combination with heterokaryon incompatible strains. It appears that heterokaryosis is not a prerequisite of sexual outcrossing, and that recombination of extranuclear mitochondrial markers does not occur in the sexual stage of the cell cycle.

Type
Research Article
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , December 1976 , pp. 281 - 290
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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