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. 1975 Aug;30(2):324–326. doi: 10.1128/am.30.2.324-326.1975

Estimate of the Genome Size by Renaturation Studies in Streptomyces

Romualdo Benigni 1, Peter Antonov Petrov 1,1, Angelo Carere 1
PMCID: PMC187174  PMID: 1164013

Abstract

The genome sizes of Streptomyces coelicolor and Streptomyces rimosus as calculated by deoxyribonucleic acid reassociation kinetics are approximately 10.5 × 106 nucleotide pairs.

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