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Twenty-four sporeless mutants were isolated from an Amut Bmut strain (mutant in the incompatibility factors) of the basidiomycete Coprinus cinereus. All the sporeless mutations were recessive to the wild type. These mutants and a previously isolated recessive sporeless strain, N2-7 (Kanda and Ishikawa 1986) were crossed with a wildtype strain. An F1 random spore analysis indicated that sporulation deficiencies in these mutants were caused by single nuclear gene mutations. These mutations were all complementary to each other, thus twenty-five sporulation genes were identified. Five of them were linked to the A incompatibility factor. Cytological observations classified these mutants into the following four types according to the stage of the blockage: (1) meiosis stopped at meta-anaphase I; (2) meiosis was completed, but further basidial development did not occur; (3) basidial development stopped at the sterigma stage; (4) basidial development stopped at the prespore stage.
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Kanda, T., Goto, A., Sawa, K. et al. Isolation and characterization of recessive sporeless mutants in the basidiomycete Coprinus cinereus . Mol Gen Genet 216, 526–529 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00334400
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