Open AccessTHE NUMBER OF CHROMOSOMES IN SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE: LIGHT MICROSCOPY OF STAINED PREPARATIONS
Author(s) -
C. F. Robinow
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.792
H-Index - 246
eISSN - 1943-2631
pISSN - 0016-6731
DOI - 10.1093/genetics/87.3.491
Subject(s) - schizosaccharomyces pombe , biology , meiosis , ploidy , schizosaccharomyces , telophase , zygote , genetics , gene , embryogenesis , prophase , mutant
Chromosomes have been counted with the light microscope in fixed and stained preparations of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. The least ambiguous images were seen in zygotes fixed at meta-, ana- and telophase of meiosis II. They suggest that the haploid number of chromosomes in S. pombe is three.
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