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Hoffmann, R. A wiki for the life sciences where authorship matters. Nature Genetics (2008)
 
 
 

Genetic analysis of the relationships between the amoebal extranuclear spindle-organizing centre and the plasmodial intranuclear spindle-organizing centre of Physarum during conjugation.

Physarum amoebae possess an extranuclear spindle-organizing centre (abbreviated SPOC), located in a typical centrosome with a pair of associated centrioles while plasmodia possess an intranuclear SPOC without centrioles. In order to ascertain whether, during conjugation, the plasmodial SPOC is derived from the amoebal one or is not related to it, we have constructed amoebal strains possessing two and three SPOCs and we have used as a genetic marker the frequency of polycentric metaphases in order to evaluate the number of SPOCs in the plasmodia. The results of both symmetrical crosses, i.e. between amoebae possessing the same number of SPOCs, and asymmetrical crosses, i.e. between amoebae possessing a different number of SPOCs, show that: (1) the number of SPOCs in plasmodia is dependent upon the number of SPOCs in either one of the two parental amoeba; (2) in no cross does the number of plasmodial SPOCs equal the sum of the parental amoebal SPOCs, but it corresponds to that of only one parent without any polarity of transmission in asymmetrical crosses. These results are consistent with the following model: (1) plasmodial SPOCs are derived from the amoebal ones; and (2) one set of parental SPOCs is lost, destroyed or inactivated in the zygote.[1]

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