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Abstract
SUMMARY: The modes of sporulation of Micromonospora chalcea, the parasitic Actinomyces odontolyticus and of stages in the primary mycelium of a strain of Streptomyces are compared. All produce spores singly on short side-branches, but the characters of the parasitic Actinomyces appear to be neotenic and degenerate, whereas those of the Streptomyces are primitive, and show signs of affiliations with a variety of different genera.
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© Society for Gerenal Microbiology, 1957