Figure 4.

Telomeres <125 bp in length do occur in vivo. A RAD52/rad52Δ heterozygous diploid was sporulated and tetrad was dissected. Wild-type or rad52Δ isolates derived from the same tetrad were allowed to propagate for ∼40 generations. Chromosome VI-R telomeres were amplified by telomere PCR, cloned, and sequenced. Each telomere sequence is represented by a vertical bar where the red and blue parts indicate the nondiverging and diverging regions, respectively.