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Further studies on the maintenance of mate-killer (mu) particles in Stock 540 Paramecium aurelia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

J. Franklin
J. Franklin
Affiliation:
School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NOR 88C*

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1. Mu particles can be removed from stock 540 Paramecium aurelia by incubation in a solution of 1·0 mg/ml RNAase for 12 h. Only a relatively small percentage of cells become mu-free and it is suggested that this variation is due to the activity of the M genes producing metagons at different times.

2. Paramecia, made mu-free by growth at elevated temperatures, can be re-infected with mu by allowing the cells to swim in a brei of stock 540 paramecia. The re-infection is only permanently successful with cells that were made mu-free 10 days earlier.

Type
Research Article
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , October 1973 , pp. 135 - 141
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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