ISOLATION OF SPO12–1 AND SPO13–1 FROM A NATURAL VARIANT OF YEAST THAT UNDERGOES A SINGLE MEIOTIC DIVISION

Sue Klapholz ¹ and Rochelle Easton Esposito ²

¹ Committee on Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
² Committee on Genetics, and Department of Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637

ATCC4117 is a strain of S. cerevisiae that undergoes a single nuclear division during sporulation to produce asci containing two diploid ascospores (Grewal and Miller 1972). All clones derived from these spores are sporulation-capable and, like the parental strain, form two-spored asci. In this paper, we describe the genetic analysis of ATCC4117. In tetraploid hybrids of vegetative cells of the ATCC4117 diploid and a/a or / diploids, the production of two-spored asci is recessive. From these tetraploids, we have isolated two recessive alleles, designated spo12–1 and spo13–1, each of which alone results in the production of asci with two diploid or near-diploid spores. These alleles are unlinked and segregate as single nuclear genes. spo12–1 is approximately 22 cM from its centromere; spo13–1 has been localized to within 1 cM of arg4 on chromosome VIII. This analysis also revealed that ATCC4117 carries a diploidization gene allelic to or closely linked to HO, modifiers that reduce the number of haploid spores per ascus and alleles affecting the total level of sporulation.

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