CC-2013 cyt1 mt-

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Culture Centre of Algae and Protozoa (CCAP), October 1986

Phenotype: abnormal cell division

This is the original cyt1 mutant, isolated by Warr in the 137c background. Its phenotype is aberrant cytokinesis, producing multinucleate and multiflagellate cells.


Warr JR (1968) A Mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardii with abnormal cell division. J Gen Microbiol 52:243–251

Warr JR, Durber S (1971) Studies on the expression of a mutant with abnormal cell division in Chlamydomonas reinhardi. Exp Cell Res 64:463-469

Warr JR, Quinn D (1977) Low molecular weight sulphydryl compounds and the expression of a cell division mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardi. Exp Cell Res 104:442-445

Ehler LL, Dutcher SK (1998) Pharmacological and genetic evidence for a role of rootlet and phycoplast microtubules in the positioning and assembly of cleavage furrows in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton 40:193-207


  • Locus:
  • CYT1
  • Chromosome:
  • 6