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Preferential destruction of chloroplast nucleoids in zygotes in green algae Dictyosphaeria cavernosa and Acetabularia calyculus

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The preferential destruction of chloroplast nucleoids in young zygotes in the coenocytic algaDictyosphaeria cavernosa and the giant unicellular algaAcetabularia calyculus was studied by high resolution epifluorescent microscopy. The chloroplast nucleoids (DNA) in the chloroplast from one of the parents were preferentially destroyed soon after the mating of male and female gametes.

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  1. Department of Cell Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, 444, Okazaki, Japan

    T. Kuroiwa, S. Enomoto & I. Shihira-Ishikawa

  2. Marine Biological Station, Kobe University, 656-24, Iwaya, Japan

    T. Kuroiwa, S. Enomoto & I. Shihira-Ishikawa

  3. Department of Biology, College of General Education, Osaka University, 560, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan

    T. Kuroiwa, S. Enomoto & I. Shihira-Ishikawa

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Kuroiwa, T., Enomoto, S. & Shihira-Ishikawa, I. Preferential destruction of chloroplast nucleoids in zygotes in green algae Dictyosphaeria cavernosa and Acetabularia calyculus. Experientia 41, 1178–1179 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01951716

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