CC-899 pf10 mt+

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Culture Centre of Algae and Protozoa (CCAP), January 1980

Phenotype: impaired motility

Cells of the pf10 mutant swim with a jiggling motion and travel in small irregular circles. This abnormal swimming results from a change to a nearly symmetric flagellar beat pattern, which is conditionally dependent on light intensity. The mutant is very easy to score. A number of suppressor mutations have been characterized by Dutcher and colleagues.


Ramanis Z, Luck DJ (1986) Loci affecting flagellar assembly and function map to an unusual linkage group in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 83:423-426

Dutcher SK, Gibbons W, Inwood WB (1988) A genetic analysis of suppressors of the PF10 mutation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Genetics 120:965-976


  • Locus:
  • PF10
  • Chromosome:
  • 17