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SUBMITTER: Coelho SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3136289 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Coelho Susana M SM Godfroy Olivier O Arun Alok A Le Corguillé Gildas G Peters Akira F AF Cock J Mark JM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110627 28
The brown alga Ectocarpus siliculosus has a haploid-diploid life cycle that involves an alternation between two distinct generations, the sporophyte and the gametophyte. We describe a mutant, ouroboros (oro), in which the sporophyte generation is converted into a functional, gamete-producing gametophyte. The life history of the mutant thus consists of a continuous reiteration of the gametophyte generation. The oro mutant exhibited morphological features typical of the gametophyte generation and ...[more]