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I sex factors and chromosomal recombination in Salmonella typhimurium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Susan Edwards
Affiliation:
Guinness-Lister Research Unit, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, Chelsea Bridge Road, London, S.W.1
G. G. Meynell
Affiliation:
Guinness-Lister Research Unit, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, Chelsea Bridge Road, London, S.W.1
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Colicin factors Ib-P9 and Ela-16 both convert their hosts to chromosomal donors. However, negative fluctuation tests suggest that chromosomal transfer does not result from the formation of stable Hfr variants.

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