Studies on the chemical nature of the substance inducing transformation of pneumococcal types. Inductions of transformation by a desoxyribonucleic acid fraction isolated from pneumococcus type III

@article{Avery1979StudiesOT,
  title={Studies on the chemical nature of the substance inducing transformation of pneumococcal types. Inductions of transformation by a desoxyribonucleic acid fraction isolated from pneumococcus type III},
  author={Oswald T. Avery and Colin M. Macleod and Maclyn Mccarty},
  journal={The Journal of Experimental Medicine},
  year={1979},
  volume={149},
  pages={297 - 326}
}
A reprint of Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty's article on the 35th anniversary of its original publication. The introduction is written by Joshua Lederberg. 
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