Abstract
Four distinct systems cv1, cv2, cv4 and cv6 behaving as monogenic factors have been found in the stock 28 of Ascobolus immersus. They each specifically suppress gene conversion in a spore pigmentation gene (respectively, b1, b2, b4 and b6). In the gene b2, where this phenomenon was studied in most detail, the effect of cv2 on the suppression of gene conversion is almost total; intragenic recombination is very strongly diminished and crossing over is also affected. In the genes b1, b2 and b4 the suppression of conversion is observed only when the corresponding modifier (cv1, cv2 and cv4) is in the heterozygous condition. It is likely that cv6 acts in the same way on b6. cv1 and b1 on one hand, cv2 and b2 on the other, are very closely linked; no recombination was observed between these modifiers and the corresponding spore pigmentation genes. The same genetic distance is observed between the linked genes b4 and b6 and between cv4 and cv6. This could indicate that these two modifiers are also closely linked to the corresponding genes. A possible effect of cv4 on intergenic recombination between b4 and b6 was shown: here again it acts by diminishing the frequency of recombination when cv4 is in the heterozygous state. The problem of the nature of the cv modifiers is discussed.
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