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Genetic properties of abortive products resulting from the protoplast fusion in yeasts

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Protoplast fusion was carried out by using a routine technique with various auxotrophic strains of Saccharomyces diastaticus and Schizosaccharomyces pombe, and abortive fusion products were observed as small colonies which appeared more frequently than large prototrophic colonies. Sixty abortive fusion products retained one or more auxotrophic characters derived from S. diastaticus, one of the strains used in the protoplast fusion. Several hybrids were obtained between the abortive products and S. cerevisiae, and the segregants of these hybrids showed many aberrant tetrads with regard to some genetic markers. These segregation patterns would be likely to result if the segregating characters were in the trisomic condition +/+/-. The results indicate that (1) the abortive fusion products are an alien monosome additional (AMA) haploid containing the genome of S. diastaticus and only one chromosome of S. pombe. (2) The additional chromosome of S. pombe, which is integrated with the genome of Saccharomyces, can be stably transmitted to the progeny.

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  1. Doshisha Women's College, Imadegawa-teramachi, Kamikyo-ku, 602, Kyoto, Japan

    Hideo Tamaki

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Tamaki, H. Genetic properties of abortive products resulting from the protoplast fusion in yeasts. Molec. Gen. Genet. 187, 177–179 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00384404

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