A generalized transducing bacteriophage for Serratia marcescens.

doi:10.1016/0923-2508(91)90093-p

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A generalized transducing bacteriophage for Serratia marcescens.

Research in microbiology - 1 Jan 1991

Regué M, Fabregat C, Viñas M

Abstract excerpt

Using Serratia marcescens 2170 harbouring plasmid pTroy11 (encoding for LamB), and lambda (lambda:: Tn5) we constructed a collection of 25 auxotrophic mutations induced by Tn5 insertions. These mutants permitted the use an easy screening method for generalized transducing bacteriophages. Out of t...

Topics

Animals
Bacteriophage lambda
Genetics, Microbial
Microscopy, Electron
Mutagenesis, Insertional
Mutation
Serratia marcescens
Transduction, Genetic

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