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DNA isolated from a strain carrying an episomal that contains the str spc region (60–66 min) hybridized with significantly more ribosomal RNA than did DNA from either the parental strain that does not carry the episome or from a similar strain carrying an episome covering a neighboring region (55–61 min) of the genome.
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Gorelic, L. Chromosomal location of ribosomal RNA cistrons in Escherichia coli . Molec. Gen. Genetics 106, 323–327 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00324050
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