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Evidence is produced that the streptomycin-resistance acquired by listeria, salmonella, streptococci and other microorganisms is capable of being transmitted by heredity, in one set of cases by the type of progressive, and in the other, of regressive, heredity. Irrespective of the form of the hereditary transmission, the streptomycin resistance produce a transforming effect of the sensitive strains of the microbes. The transforming effect of streptomycin resistance proved to be common for various species, genera and families of the microbes possessing no species' specificity. The transforming factor fo streptomycin-resistance proved to be thermostable. The presence of transforming action of the acquired streptomycin-resistance confirms the fact that the latter is transmitted to the subsequent generations according to the law of the acquired properties' inheritance.
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Sakharov, P.P., Gudkova, E.I. & Fudel, T.N. A study of the transforming activity of streptomycin-resistance in the pathogenic microorganisms. Bull Exp Biol Med 52, 1182–1186 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00787282
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