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Recombination without Sexual Reproduction in Penicillium chrysogenum

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THE technique devised by Pontecorvo and Roper1,2 for genetic analysis outside the sexual cycle in filamentous fungi and applied to the imperfect fungus Aspergillus niger3,4 has now been successfully adapted by us to another imperfect fungus, Penicillium chrysogenum, the species used for penicillin production.

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  1. Department of Genetics, University of Glasgow,

    G. PONTECORVO & G. SERMONTI

  2. International Centre for Microbiological Chemistry, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma

    G. PONTECORVO & G. SERMONTI

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PONTECORVO, G., SERMONTI, G. Recombination without Sexual Reproduction in Penicillium chrysogenum. Nature 172, 126–127 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172126c0

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