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Hybrid DNA tracts may start at different sites during meiotic recombination in gene b2 of Ascobolus
Author(s) -
Kalogeropoulos A.,
Rossignol J. L.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
the embo journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.484
H-Index - 392
eISSN - 1460-2075
pISSN - 0261-4189
DOI - 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1988.tb02807.x
Subject(s) - biology , genetics , recombination , humanities , gene , philosophy
The initiation of hybrid DNA in the b2 spore colour gene was investigated by the analysis of non‐Mendelian segregation asci in the progeny of crosses involving several allelic b2 mutations. These analyses showed that, instead of the unique initiation region of hybrid DNA in b2 , assumed previously by Paquette and Rossignol (1978), there are multiple sites for hybrid DNA starting. They produce major and minor fractions of hybrid DNA. The major fraction starts upstream of the left end of the gene, propagates rightwards and can cover its entire length. The minor fractions do not span the left b2 end. One of them is detected within the left half of the gene, the others within its right half.