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Mating and Tetrad Separation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for Genetic Analysis
Published on: August 13, 2009
The three genomes of Chlamydomonas
1Departments of Molecular Biology and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, 30, Quai Ernest Ansermet, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland, Jean-David.Rochaix@molbio.unige.ch.
Abstract:
During the past 50 years, the green unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has played a key role as model system for the study of photosynthesis and chloroplast biogenesis. This is due to its well-established nuclear and chloroplast genetics, its dispensable photosynthetic function in the presence of acetate, and its highly efficient nuclear and chloroplast transformation systems. Considerable progress has been achieved in our understanding of the structure, function, inheritance, and expression of nuclear, chloroplast, and mitochondrial genes and of the molecular cross-talk between the nuclear, chloroplast, and mitochondrial genetic systems.
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