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. 1980 Mar;94(3):519–530. doi: 10.1093/genetics/94.3.519

Region-Specific Recombination in Phage T4. I. a Special Glucosyl-Dependent Recombination System

Jack N Levy 1, Edward B Goldberg 1
PMCID: PMC1214157  PMID: 6447095

Abstract

In this communication, we describe a recombination mechanism in bacteriophage T4D that acts only on glucosylated phage, acts in some regions of the genome, but not others, and is heat sensitive, showing decreasing activity with increasing temperature.

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