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. 1966 Nov;101(2):32C–33C. doi: 10.1042/bj1010032c

A suggested mechanism for the selective procedure for isolating thymine-requiring mutants of Escherichia coli.

J B Bertino, K A Stacey
PMCID: PMC1270145  PMID: 4381707

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