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Efficient mating-type (MT) switching in homothallic strains of Schizosaccharomyces pombe is significantly reduced if they have a mutation in any of the eleven known swi genes. The swi4 mutation causes heterothallic as well as homothallic segregants, both of which have duplications in the MT region. In contrast to homothallic strains, h + swi4 strains yield only a few duplications. The duplications originate in the process of MT switching, presumably by mistakes in the resolution of DNA intermediates. They always consist of one cassette and one of the intervening sequences, L and K respectively. Strains with up to seven cassettes in the MT region were found. The possible modes of their origins are discussed.
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Fleck, O., Heim, L. & Gutz, H. A mutated swi4 gene causes duplications in the mating-type region of Schizosaccharomyces pombe . Curr Genet 18, 501–509 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00327020
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