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. 1967 May;57(5):1275–1279. doi: 10.1073/pnas.57.5.1275

The radiation sensitivity of Escherichia coli B: a hypothesis relating filament formation and prophage induction.

E M Witkin
PMCID: PMC224468  PMID: 5341236

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