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From a bloom forming blue-green alga, Anabaenopsis raciborskii, spontaneous mutants, which had lost the ability to form gas vacuoles have been isolated; the mutant frequency was 4.8×10-3. The filaments of gas vacuole-less mutants settled at the bottom of flasks in liquid culture media unlike the parent alga. The growth and nitrogen fixation were comparatively poor in the mutants.
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Das, B., Singh, P.K. Isolation of gas vacuole-less mutants of the blue-green alga Anabaenopsis raciborskii . Arch. Microbiol. 111, 195–196 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00446569
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