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ASCOSPORES of Neurospora crassa two to three times the normal size occur in many strains, though the frequency is low, probably less than one per thousand ascospores. A particular cross made in this laboratory produced an abnormally high frequency of giant ascospores (about 3.4 per cent), and since a number of these germinated and gave good cultures, a study of the phenomenon has been initiated.
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PATEMAN, J. Polygenic Inheritance in Neurospora. Nature 176, 1274–1275 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/1761274a0
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