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Winge and Roberts1 have establishe that Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains three polymeric genes for maltose fermentation, M 1, M 2 and M 3, and they have obtained by mutation a fourth maltase gene (M 4).
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Winge, Ø., and Roberts, C., Nature, 166, 1114 (1950).
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GILLILAND, R. Identification of the Genes for Maltose Fermentation in Saccharomyces diastaticus . Nature 173, 409 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173409a0
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