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During bacterial conjugation, the division of the Hfr cell is arrested. The inhibition of cell division is probably due to a perturbation in the normal DNA replication cycle arising from conjugation.
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Sarathy, P.V., Siddiqi, O. Effect of mating on cell division in Escherichia coli Hfr. Molec. Gen. Genet. 125, 133–137 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00268866
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