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Are Torulæ Haploid?

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AT irregular intervals, yeast geneticists have reported1 the origin of asporogenous yeast types by the direct germination of spores. Naturally, they were entitled to believe that asporogenous yeasts generally referred to as Torulæ may have had a similar origin. Their suggestion that all asporogenous strains are ‘haploid’ could, however, be considered valid only if polyploidy did not occur in yeasts.

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  1. Cytogenetics Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 3

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SUBRAMANIAM, M., RANGANATHAN, B. Are Torulæ Haploid?. Nature 172, 628–629 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172628a0

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