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Mutants of Escherichia coli resistant to the antibiotic neamine have been isolated. The mutants have been mapped and two separate loci for neamine resistance, nea A and nea B, have been identified on the genome. Nea A maps very closely to spc A and nea B is near to the str A locus. Both neamine resistance markers are situated, therefore, in the socalled ribosomal operon.
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Cannon, M., Cabezon, T. & Bollen, A. Mapping of neamine resistance: Identification of two genetic loci, nea A and nea B. Molec. gen. Genet. 130, 321–326 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00333871
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