Figure 11.15: The petite mutants have large deletions in their mtDNA and are unable to carry out oxidative phosphorylation. Colonies of normal yeast cells and colonies of petite mutants.
[From Xin Jie Chen and G. Desmond Clark-Walker, Genetics 144: 1445–1454, Fig1, 1996. © Genetics Society of America. Courtesy of Xin Jie Chen, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University.]