DNA synthesis during meiosis of eight-spored strains ofChlamydomonas reinhardi
Tóm tắt
In strain 137F ofChlamydomonas reinhardi, the zygospores undergo one round of nuclear DNA replication followed by three divisions to produce octospores. The third division without replication has been interpreted by Sueoka et al. (1967, 1969) to mean that the gametes and vegetative cells have at least binemic chromosomes. We have repeated their experiments using the same strain. However, the meiotic products were inviable — unable to undergo postmeiotic vegetative growth, DNA replication or division. On the other hand, using a variant of strain 137C which also has three divisions during germination we have shown that meiosis is normal. Zygospores from this strain undergo two rounds of nuclear DNA replication prior to the formation of octospores. These meiotic products are viable and capable of postmeiotic vegetative growth, replication and division. Since the third division without DNA replication subsequent to the two meiotic divisions leads to inviable products, and the strain which has viable products after three divisions does not lack the additional replication, meiosis inChlamydomonas reinhardi provides no evidence of a bineme chromosome structure.
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