Abstract
The properties of two rII complementation heterozygotes (D5B and D7A) of bacteriophage T4 are described. These strains are characterized by their stability, each forming less than 10-3 r segregants among their viable progeny, and by their segregation of only one of the two parental types. No increase in r progeny was found on crossing D7A or D5B with T4r+, indicating that the duplications in these strains are not separated by an essential region of the phage genome. Both D5B and D7A from h-2+/h-4+ heterozygotes at frequencies similar to T4r+, suggesting that the duplicated regions in these strains are short. The progeny of these h-2+/h-4+ heterozygotes retain heterozygosity for rII but not for h: therefore, D5B and D7A are not stabilized terminal redundancy complementation heterozygotes. We conclude that D5B and D7A contain very short tandem duplications and we present structures consistent with the observed characteristics of these phages.
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