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Mutations governing resistance to neamine, neomycin, kanamycin and fusidic acid have been mapped within the ribosomal region of theBacillus subtilis genome using PBS1-mediated transduction. The probable order of these closely linked markers is:
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Communicated by M. Nomura
This work was supported by a predoctoral training grant, GM-1290, from the National Institutes of Health, administered by the Department of Microbiology, N.Y.U. School of Medicine, and by a research grant from the National Science Foundation, GB-16782, awarded to I.S.
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Goldthwaite, C., Smith, I. Genetic mapping of aminoglycoside and fusidic acid resistant mutations inBacillus subtilis . Molec. Gen. Genet. 114, 181–189 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01788887
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