MUTATIONS OF BACTERIAL VIRUSES AFFECTING THEIR HOST RANGE
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Mutations of Bacterial Viruses Affecting Their Host Range.
W HEN susceptible bacteria are spread on a solid culture medium with a large amount of a bacterialvirus, complete lysis occurs after incubation, except for the appearance in some cases of colonies consisting of virus-resistant cells. These are the descendants of bacteria that had undergone a mutation from virus-sensitivity to virus-resistance prior to the action of the virus (LURI.A and DELBRUC...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics
سال: 1945
ISSN: 1943-2631
DOI: 10.1093/genetics/30.1.84