Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-g7gxr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-09T15:54:24.116Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

I sex factors and chromosomal recombination in Salmonella typhimurium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Susan Edwards  and
G. G. Meynell
Susan Edwards
Affiliation:
Guinness-Lister Research Unit, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, Chelsea Bridge Road, London, S.W.1
G. G. Meynell
Affiliation:
Guinness-Lister Research Unit, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, Chelsea Bridge Road, London, S.W.1
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Colicin factors Ib-P9 and Ela-16 both convert their hosts to chromosomal donors. However, negative fluctuation tests suggest that chromosomal transfer does not result from the formation of stable Hfr variants.

Type
Short Papers
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , June 1969 , pp. 321 - 323
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

References

REFERENCES

Clowes, R. C. & Moody, E. E. M. (1966). Chromosomal transfer from ‘recombination -deficient’ strains of Escherichia coli K-12. Genetics 53, 717–726.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Curtiss, R. & Renshaw, J. (1965). Fertility factor attachment in F + strains of Escherichia coli.. Genetics 52, 438–439.Google Scholar
Edwards, S. & Meynell, G. G. (1968). General method for isolating de-repressed bacterial sex factors. Nature, Lond. 219, 869–870.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Jacob, F. & Wollman, E. L. (1961). Sexuality and the Genetics of Bacteria. New York and London: Academic Press.Google Scholar
Luria, S. E. & Delbrück, M. (1943). Mutations of bacteria from virus sensitivity to virus resistance. Genetics 28, 491–511.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Meynell, E., Meynell, G. G. & Datta, N. (1968). Phylogenetic relationships of drug resistance factors and other transmissible bacterial plasmids. Bact. Rev. 32, 55–83.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Meynell, G. G. (1961). Salmonella enteritidis as a genetic donor in intraspecific and interspecific crosses initiated by colicine factors. J. gen. Microbiol. 28, 169–176.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Meynell, G. G. & Edwards, S. (1969). Failure of colicin factor I to integrate in the bacterial chromosome. Proc. Soc. gen. Microbiol. (In the Press.)Google Scholar
Meynell, G. G. & Lawn, A. M. (1967). The sex factor of colicin factor Ela. Genet. Res., Camb. 10, 323–325.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ozeki, H., Howarth, S. & Clowes, R. C. (1961). Colicine factors as fertility factors in bacteria. Nature, Lond. 190, 986–989.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Smith, S. M. & Stocker, B. A. D. (1962). Colicinogeny and recombination. Br. Med. Bull. 18, 46–51.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Snyder, T. L. (1947). The relative errors of bacteriological plate counting methods. J. Bact. 54, 641–654.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed