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Redundant homosexual F transfer facilitates selection-induced reversion of plasmid mutations.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jun 1996
Peters J E, Bartoszyk I M, Dheer S, Benson S A
Abstract excerpt
F plasmids use surface exclusion to prevent the redundant entry of additional F plasmids during active growth of the host cells. This mechanism is relaxed during stationary phase and nonlethal selections, allowing homosexual redundant plasmid transfer. Homosexual redundant transfer occurs in stationary-phase liquid cultures, within nongrowing populations on solid media, and on media lacking a carbon source. We...
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