Heizmann P, Doly J, Hussein Y, Nicolas P, Nigon V, Bernardi G
Biochim Biophys Acta. 1981 May 29;653(3):412-5. doi: 10.1016/0005-2787(81)90197-0.
Bleached mutants of Euglena gracilis, traditionally thought to be completely deprived of chloroplast DNA, have been shown to contain a defective chloroplast genome, present at a very low copy number, and preferentially retaining ribosomal RNA genes. We propose to call these mutants phi-, because of their resemblance with the rho- mutants of yeast.
传统上认为纤细裸藻的漂白突变体完全没有叶绿体DNA,但现已表明它们含有有缺陷的叶绿体基因组,其拷贝数非常低,且优先保留核糖体RNA基因。由于这些突变体与酵母的rho-突变体相似,我们建议将它们称为phi-突变体。