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Abstract
A fraction of recombinant colonies resulting from conjugation is heterogenetic for unselected markers. Constitutivity for alkaline phosphatase synthesis (phoR) is studied as the unselected marker. The frequency of phoR heterogeneity depends on the genetic distance between phoR and the selected marker. Various models are considered which explain the formation of heterogenetic colonies (mixed clones), and experiments are described which test these models. It is concluded that the Hfr fragment can replicate and participate more than once in recombination thus yielding heterogenetic colonies.Mesh:
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Year: 1972 PMID: 4566214 PMCID: PMC1212837
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Genetics ISSN: 0016-6731 Impact factor: 4.562