A cytoplasmically inherited mutation in the fungus Phycomyces blakesleeanus.

doi:10.1099/00221287-136-8-1577

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A cytoplasmically inherited mutation in the fungus Phycomyces blakesleeanus.

Journal of general microbiology - 1 Aug 1990

Arnau J, Murillo F J, Torres-Martínez S

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Fourteen mutants of the fungus Phycomyces blakesleeanus, showing high levels of resistance to copper, were isolated. In all the mutants, copper resistance behaved as a very variable and unstable trait. In the mutant strain MU102, the mutation was demonstrated to be cytoplasmically inherited. In a...

Topics

Copper
Cyanides
Cytoplasm
Drug Resistance, Microbial
Electron Transport
Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Mutation
Phycomyces
Salicylamides

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