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Phase Determination of the Circadian Rhythm of Conidiation in Heterocaryons between two out-of-Phase Mycelia in Neurospora crassa

National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki 444, Japan

J.W. Hastings

Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Neurospora grows vegetatively as a syncytium in which multiple nuclei exist within a connected cytoplasm. Because of the ability of separate and distinct mycelia to fuse, the possibility exists of generating heterocaryotic cultures in which the nuclei and cytoplasms of two different strains are comingled into the same syncytium. We have used such hetero caryons, in which the component parts differed with respect to their circadian clock phase, to examine whether or not clock-dominant phases exist in the circadian cycle. To this end, the phase subsequent to the formation of heterocaryons by pairs of mycelial discs that are initially at different circadian phases was examined in Neurospora crassa. The resulting phase was an average of the parent phases in many cases, but was sometimes observed to correspond more closely to just one of the original parental phases. In these cases, we did not observe any dominant phases in the circadian cycle; the phase of a particular parent disc was more dominant in the heterocaryon when the proportion of the nuclei from that parent was greater in the heterocaryon. In some instances, which occurred mostly when the difference in phase of the parental discs was large, the resultant phase could not be related in a simple way to the parental phases. An interpretation based on a limit cycle model of the circadian oscillation is possible.

Journal of Biological Rhythms, Vol. 4, No. 3, 377-387 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/074873048900400307


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