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DURING the past nine years we have demonstrated that most named cultures of Acetobacter species obtained from culture collections contained a proportion of Acetobacter cells which, on plating, gave rise to colony forms different from those yielded by the bulk of the cells in the culture. On isolating both kinds of colony they were found, in many cases, to differ by only one, or at the most two properties, notably those used in Frateur's classification1.
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SHIMWELL, J., CARR, J. Mutant Frequency in Acetobacter. Nature 201, 1051–1052 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2011051b0
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