Talk:Petite mutation

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This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Ghadisu (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Halah.F, Asrar1993, Amanidkok. This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Kcutshaw (article contribs).

What does "a neutral petite" mean, and why do they produce all wild-type offspring when crossed with wild-type yeast? When I studied this mutant I was told that when petite is due to a defect in the mitochondria, the defective mitochondria normally out-compete wild type ones. I'd expect that to happen after a cross as well. A nuclear mutation to petite could be, like other mutations, either dominant or recessive. Mkkuhner (talk) 22:37, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This article has a good start. However, it feels a bit lacking in detail. Perhaps discussing the different mutations in more detail so as to remove some abiguity on the crossing and resulting phenotypes would help flesh this out? Kcutshaw (talk) 15:33, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think it has some interesting information, but it need to show the link between the mutation and the genetic effects of it like diseases. Rahaf M Hassan91 (talk) 22:07, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I like how the article is organized. It covers many aspects related to mutation, so if anyone does not have an idea about mutation he is going to find all the sources. Another great thing about the article is that it describes a different kind of mutation, the causes and it provides links to other articles which would be helpful to the reader, also the article is well resourced.Halhamdan (talk) 19:58, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I am adding a citation to the first paragraph. The source I am adding is a good review of the S. cerevisiae mtDNA mutations which cause petite mutations, among other defects in the yeast and will be used to add more content to the article in the future. Kcutshaw (talk) 15:24, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The article presently has this: "A mutation that produces small (petite" > petite) anaerobic-like colonies had shown first in Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and described by Boris Ephrussi and his co-workers in (1949a) in Gif-sur-Yvette, France."

What is meant with "(1949a)"? I assume it means the year, in which case I recommend to drop the () and remove the a, and only note down "1949". I am not 100% sure but I think this would be a good replacement; I am not doing the replacement myself so that it can happen in an unbiased way by someone else, since I really have no idea why there is this strangely formatted year in the first place. 2A02:8388:1604:CA80:F462:6A60:DEA:83A0 (talk) 10:51, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]