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IN conjunction with experiments concerned with the genetics of photosynthesis in the sexually reproducing, unicellular, green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardi 1 it became necessary to devise a technique to screen for mutants which were blocked in some phase of their photosynthesis. In the technique to be described here the inability to fix carbon dioxide in the light was taken as a requirement of a non-photosynthetic mutant.
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LEVINE, R. A Screening Technique for Photosynthetic Mutants in Unicellular Algæ. Nature 188, 339–340 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/188339b0
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