A Salmonella phage-P22 mutant defective in abortive transduction.

doi:10.1093/genetics/145.1.17

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A Salmonella phage-P22 mutant defective in abortive transduction.

Genetics - 1 Jan 1997

Benson N R, Roth J

Abstract excerpt

In the course of a lytic infection the Salmonella phage P22 occasionally encapsulates bacterial DNA instead of phage DNA. Thus, phage lysates include two classes of viral particles. Phage particles carrying bacterial DNA are referred to as transducing particles and deliver this DNA to a host as e...

Topics

Alleles
Bacteriophage P22
Chromosome Mapping
DNA, Circular
DNA, Viral
Genes, Lethal
Mutagenesis
Phenotype
Salmonella
Transduction, Genetic

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