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Mating-Type Inheritance

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Paramecium

Abstract

Discovery of mating type in Paramecium (Sonneborn 1937) was the first demonstration of sex in unicellular animals. Initial genetic studies showed peculiar modes of mating-type inheritance, which were subsequently traced to macro-nuclear differentiations in which genes controlling the potentiality of the expression of mating type were repressed or derepressed (Sonneborn 1947, 1957; Beale 1954; Nanney 1954). Such nuclear differentiations have been extensively investigated as a model system of cell differentiation in metazoa. Genetic control of mating-type substances, complementary macromolecules on ciliary surfaces which confer mating-type specificities on the cells, has also been extensively studied. Recently, genetic analyses using intersyngen (interspecies) hybrids revealed genes controlling the specificity of the mating-type substances (Tsukii and Hiwatashi 1983).

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  1. Laboratory of Biology, Hosei University, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102, Japan

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    Hans-Dieter Görtz

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Tsukii, Y. (1988). Mating-Type Inheritance. In: Görtz, HD. (eds) Paramecium. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73086-3_4

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