Ethidium bromide is known to be a powerful mutagen for the induction of eytoplasmically inherited petite mutations in yeast. The effect of ethidium bromide on the degree of suppressiveness of the induced mutants as a function of exposure time is described. The mitoehondrial DNA of 20 ethidium bromid
Selfish DNA in ‘Petite’ mutants
✍ Scribed by Reid, R. A.
- Book ID
- 109718913
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 145 KB
- Volume
- 285
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
- DOI
- 10.1038/285620b0
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