Table 2. Deletion of WOR4 blocks white-to-opaque switching.
| White-to-Opaque Switching | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strain | Switching Frequency (%) | n | Notesa |
| Wild Type White | 3.51 | 541 | 1 |
| Wild Type White | 2.30 | 609 | 2 |
| rfg1/rfg1 | 3.80 | 527 | 1 |
| WOR4/wor4 | 2.47 | 511 | 1 |
| wor4/wor4 | <0.06 | 1809 | 2 |
| wor4/wor4 | <0.06 | 1804 | 2 |
| Opaque-to-White Switching | |||
| Strain | Switching Frequency (%) | n | Notesa |
| Wild Type Opaque | 10.29 | 408 | 1 |
| rfg1/rfg1 | 31.25 | 480 | 1 |
| WOR4/wor4 | 31.14 | 517 | 1 |
Switching frequency and number of colonies scored for heterozygous and homozygous deletions of WOR4 and homozygous deletions of RFG1. Parental strains corresponding to the strain background of each strain are indicated.
a
1, Common strain background; 2, Common strain background.