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. 1968 Jun;95(6):2062–2069. doi: 10.1128/jb.95.6.2062-2069.1968

Sequential Replication of the Chromosome of Bacillus licheniformis1

F J Tyeryar Jr 1,2, W D Lawton 1,2, A M MacQuillan 1,2
PMCID: PMC315135  PMID: 5669889

Abstract

A sequential replication map of the chromosome of Bacillus licheniformis was constructed by employing the method of gene-frequency analysis presented by Yoshikawa and Sueoka. Our analysis of 11 genetic markers was based on the hypothesis that the chromosome initiated replication at a fixed origin and proceeded in a linear fashion to the terminus. The proposed locations of markers were validated by cotransformation and cotransduction analyses. Bacteriophage SP-15 cotransduced markers that failed to show linkage by transformation.

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