A method for the isolation of phage muta
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Mount, David W.
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Article
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1976
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Springer
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English
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Phage lambdacl+ gives clear plaques whereas phage lambdacIind- gives turbid plaques on a lawn of a mutant strain of E. coli K12. This strain, called STS, carries mutation spr in a tif sfi genetic background. I hypothesize that upon temperate phage infection, STS bacteria spontaneously inactivate pha