Abstract
When crosses are performed between newly arisen, spontaneous petite mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, respiratory competent (restored) colonies can form. Some of the restored colonies are highly sectored and produce large numbers of petite mutants. The high-frequency petite formation trait is inherited in a non-Mendelian manner, and elimination of mitochondrial DNA from these strains results in the loss of the trait. These results indicate that abnormal mitochondrial genomes are sometimes formed during restoration of respiratory competence. It is hypothesized that these abnormalities result either from recombination between mitochondrial DNA fragments to produce molecules having partial duplications contained on inverted or transposed sequences, or else recombinational "hot spots" have been expanded.
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