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. 1989 Jan;121(1):37–45. doi: 10.1093/genetics/121.1.37

Arrest of Micronuclear DNA Replication during Genomic Exclusion in Tetrahymena Produces Haploid Strains

A Kaczanowski 1, I Gornicka 1, G Cleffmann 1
PMCID: PMC1203603  PMID: 2645196

Abstract

Diploid cells of Tetrahymena thermophila were crossed to strain A*V, whose micronucleus is defective, to induce the unilateral transfer of gametic nuclei from the diploid cells to the A*V cells (round I of genomic exclusion). These haploid nuclei presumably undergo one endomitotic cycle and then become diploid with a G(1) (2C) DNA content. However, further DNA replication from 2C to 4C was transiently arrested until the pairs separated. When endomitosis was blocked by treatment with cycloheximide during 6-8 hours of conjugation, the exconjugants of round I of genomic exclusion remained haploid. Competence for diploidization is apparently limited to some period of time after nuclear transfer. Blocking of diploidization during round I of genomic exclusion can be used as an efficient way to induce haploid strains in Tetrahymena.

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