(1) Institute of General Microbiology, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 4, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland;(2) Institute of Genetics, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 2A, DK-1353 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Abstract:
Summary Diploid strains of Schizosaccharomyces pombe defective in P-specific pheromone production and response provided cytological evidence that the induction of meiosis as such (and not only conjugation) depends upon an initial stimulation by sexual pheromones.