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Chlamydomonas reinhardii, a facultative photoautotroph, can also be grown heterotrophically on acetate in the dark. Thus, mutants impaired in photosynthetic functions can be recovered as acetate requirers and their specific defects analyzed. While a part of the genetic information necessary for chloroplast function is found in the nucleus and displays classical Mendelian inheritance, another part is found in the chloroplast and undergoes non-Mendelian, uniparental transmission. In the occasional biparental zygotes, chloroplast gene markers can be observed to recombine. This unique property of Chlamydomonas has led to the derivation of a formal genetic map of the chloroplast genome (Sager 1972; Gilharn 1978). An extensive nuclear genetic map also exists (Harris 1982).
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Goldschmidt-Clermont, M. et al. (1984). Structure and Expression of Chloroplast and Nuclear Genes in Chlamydomonas reinhardii . In: Wiessner, W., Robinson, D.G., Starr, R.C. (eds) Compartments in Algal Cells and Their Interaction. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69686-2_3
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