The maintenance of kappa during macronuclear reorganization in Paramecium tetraurelia.
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Kappa particles were injected into stock-51 sensitives (KK) of Paramecium tetraurelia to investigate the maintenance of kappa by gene K during macronuclear reorganization. Injection into exconjugants and autogamous cells followed by macronuclear regeneration, induced by microsurgical removal of macronuclear Anlagen, resulted in maintenance of kappa particles by a considerable proportion of the clones descended from the recipient paramecia. Injection into animals that underwent normal reorganization however usually failed to yield particle-maintaining paramecia.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of cell science
دوره 30 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1978