A few weeks ago, Otello Stampacchia in the Rochaix lab in Geneva wrote to
bionet.chlamydomonas,
>Dear Netters,
>we are having a lot of troubles in crossing a y-1 strain (mt -) obtained
>from the Chlamy center a while ago.
>I was wandering if anybody out there had a strain with reasonable
>crossing capacities, and it will be willing to ship it to us.
This is a followup: the y1 mt- strains in the Chlamydomonas Genetics Center
do cross satisfactorily, and the strain being used in Geneva turns out to
have been mt+.
Elizabeth Harris
chlamy at acpub.duke.edu