Abstract
Different molecular weight forms of the protein product of the yeast mitochondrial gene var1 are shown to arise by a process of asymmetric gene conversion. These different forms can be accounted for by two DNA segments, ∼36 and 57 base pairs long, present in one allelic form of the var1 structural gene, which can be inserted independently and at different frequencies into other var1 alleles.
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Strausberg, R., Vincent, R., Perlman, P. et al. Asymmetric gene conversion at inserted segments on yeast mitochondrial DNA. Nature 276, 577–583 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/276577a0
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