FIG. 7.

Tendency toward increasing d over a meiotic time course (times in sporulation medium indicated). (a) In the wild-type (SK1), the relative positioning of homologous and nonhomologous loci increasingly deviates from a simulated random positioning (shaded area), probably due to meiotic homologous pairing. Even under premeiotic growth conditions in medium containing acetate, chromosomal loci become redistributed. (b) In a meiosis-defective ime1 strain (AMP115), the d value is at no time grossly different from simulated random positioning (shaded area).