Abstract
Notwithstanding the industrial relevance of antibiotic-producing microorganisms, the development of their genetics remained for a long time at a rather primitive stage. A genetic system has been developed for only a small number of microorganisms. Since the actinomycetes and the lower eukaryotes filamentous fungi are the most representative antibiotic-producing microorganisms, we will restrict our description on the genetics of antibiotic production mainly to these two classes.
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Lancini, G., Lorenzetti, R. (1993). Genetics of Antibiotic Production. In: Biotechnology of Antibiotics and Other Bioactive Microbial Metabolites. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9522-6_6
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