title: Mapping the mating type locus of Tetrahymena thermophila: meiotic linkage of mat to the ribosomal RNA gene.
abstract: Tetrahymena thermophila has a multiple mating type system. While a sexually mature cell usually expresses only one mating type, its germline (micronucleus) carries the genetic potential for 5 to 7 mating types. The set of allowed mating types is specified by the mat locus. The choice of which particular mating type is expressed by a cell reflects a somatically inherited, developmentally programmed differentiation of the somatic nucleus (macronucleus). In this work we report that the mat locus maps to the left arm of chromosome 2, as determined by nullisomic deletion mapping. We also report a distance of 29 cM between the mat locus and the ribosomal RNA gene, previously mapped to chromosome 2L. This represents another (rare) case of meiotic linkage in Tetrahymena.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106.
authors.forename: L K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Bleyman
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Baum
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Bruns
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Orias
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D005838:Genotype; D008540:Meiosis; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics*; D012098:Reproduction / Q000502:physiology; D016808:Tetrahymena thermophila / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D012335:RNA, Ribosomal