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Conjugative Mating Assays for Sequence-specific Analysis of Transfer Proteins Involved in Bacterial Conjugation
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Studies on bacterial conjugational crosses via model populations. I. The model populations
1Institute of Genetics, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, PO Box 521, H-6701 Szeged, Hungary.
Acta Microbiologica Et Immunologica Hungarica
|December 2, 2004
Abstract:
A procedure is presented in which model populations, simulating progenies obtained from Escherichia coli Hfr x F- crosses, are generated. The procedure seems to be appropriate for visualizing hidden features of the genetic analysis, which are not detected by the conjugational crosses.
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