• Biology, Medicine
• Published in Genetics 1952

Sex Compatibility in Escherichia Coli.

@article{Lederberg1952SexCI,
  title={Sex Compatibility in Escherichia Coli.},
  author={Joshua Lederberg and L. L. Cavalli and Esther Lederberg},
  journal={Genetics},
  year={1952},
  volume={37 6},
  pages={
          720-30
        }
}

• Joshua Lederberg, L. L. Cavalli, Esther Lederberg

ENETIC recombination in bacteria was first successfully studied in strain G K-12 of Esclzericlzia coli (TATUM and LEDERBERG 1947; LEDERBERG 1951). Since the nutritional mutants used in the crosses were derived directly from this strain under clonal propagation, their conipatibility implied a homothallic or self-compatible sexual system (cf. WHITEHOUSE 1949). The inference that crossing was genetically unrestricted was supported by the absence of marked hereditary mating preferences among the… CONTINUE READING

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