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A new type of genetic control of gene conversion, from Ascobolus immersus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

B. C. Lamb  and
S. Helmi
B. C. Lamb
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, Imperial College, London SW7 2BB
S. Helmi
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, Imperial College, London SW7 2BB
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A new type of genetic control of gene conversion is described from the Pasadena strains of the fungus Ascobolus immersus. It is characterized by cis/trans position effects and incomplete dominance. The P, K and 91 factors segregated from each other like Mendelian alleles and controlled the conversion frequencies and patterns of four nearby, closely-linked white ascospore colour mutations, although they did not usually coconvert with these w sites. Mutations of different origin responded similarly to the same control factors.

These control factors greatly affected the total conversion frequencies, the relative frequencies of the different detected conversion classes and various other conversion parameters. The detailed results are consistent either with P, K and 91 affecting both the frequency of hybrid DNA formation and the correction processes for removing mispaired bases, or if they do not affect the correction processes directly, then they must have large effects on the frequency of asymmetrical hybrid DNA formation, which must usually be much more common than symmetric hybrid DNA, and there must be both an inequality in the frequency with which the two homologous chromosomes (in these crosses, + bearing and w bearing) invade each other, and in the frequency with which the two strands of each chromatid invade the homologue in asymmetric hybrid DNA formation.

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Research Article
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , August 1978 , pp. 67 - 78
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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