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Mol Cell Biol. 1985 February; 5(2): 273-280

Inheritance of extrachromosomal ribosomal DNA during the asexual life cycle of Dictyostelium discoideum: examination by use of DNA polymorphisms.

D L Welker, K P Hirth and K L Williams

ABSTRACT

Wild-type isolates of Dictyostelium discoideum exhibited differences in the size of restriction fragments of the extrachromosomal 88-kilobase ribosomal DNA (rDNA) palindrome. Polymorphisms in rDNA also were found among strains derived solely from the NC4 wild-type isolate. These variations involved EcoRI fragments II, III, and V; they included loss of the EcoRI site separating fragments II and V and deletion and insertion of DNA. More than one rDNA form can coexist in the same diploid or haploid cell. However, one or another parental rDNA tended to predominate in diploids constructed, using the parasexual cycle, between haploid NC4-derived strains and haploid wild-type isolates. In some cases, most if not all of the rDNA of such diploids were of one form after ca. 50 generations of growth. Segregant haploids, derived from diploids that possessed predominantly a single rDNA allele, possessed the same allele as the diploid and did not recover the other form. This evidence implies that replication does not proceed from a single chromosomal or extrachromosomal copy of the rDNA during the asexual life cycle of D. discoideum.

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Mol Cell Biol. 1985 February; 5(2): 273-280

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