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Genetic Instability in Streptomycetes

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Industrial Aspects of Biochemistry and Genetics

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Streptomycetes and other actinomycetes can exhibit a remarkable degree of phenotypic variability, which is frequently due to genetic variability. This behaviour attracted interest, because it affects not only morphological characters but also various enzymatic activities, antibiotic resistance and the commercially important antibiotic production. The problem has already been dealt with extensively in various review articles. Therefore only a short summary with a number of recent relevant references will be given, focusing on the role of plasmids and on chromosomal instability and without any claim of completeness.

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Hütter, R., Hintermann, G. (1985). Genetic Instability in Streptomycetes. In: Alaeddinoğlu, N.G., Demain, A.L., Lancini, G. (eds) Industrial Aspects of Biochemistry and Genetics. NATO ASI Series, vol 87. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1227-7_4

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