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In this paper we report the results of an electrophoretic examination of genetic variation in the common meadow mushroom, Agaricus campestris. An examination of variability at 10 biochemical loci in a single natural population revealed an average heterozygosity of 0.281. Mendelian segregation was verified for 13 loci in single-spore-derived lines from individual sporophores. One linkage was found (Gpt-2 with Pep-GL-1, r = 0.065) among 47 pairwise examinations for joint segregation.
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Contribution No. 1304, Department of Plant Pathology, The Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station. Authorized for publication as Journal Series Paper No. 6367.
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May, B., Royse, D.J. Genetic variation and joint segregation of biochemical loci in the common meadow mushroom, Agaricus campestris . Biochem Genet 20, 1165–1173 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00498940
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