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GENETICS OF SOMATIC FUSION IN PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM: THE PpII STRAIN
O'Neil Ray Collins 1 and Edward F. Haskins 2
1 Department of Botany, University of California, Berkeley 94720
2 Department of Botany, University of Washington, Seattle 98195
Plasmodial (somatic) fusion in a strain of Physarum polycephalum, a true slime mold, is controlled by four loci, each of which displays simple dominance. Two diploid plasmodia fuse with each other only if they are phenotypically or genotypically identical for all four fusion loci.
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