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Isolation and complementation analysis of temperature-sensitive mutants of the PS8 bacteriophage ofAgrobacterium tumefaciens

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The isolation, method of complementation analysis and classification of temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants of phage PS8 (Agrobacterium tumefaciens) are described.

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  1. Institute of Biophysics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 612 65, Brno

    D. Kubíčková, Z. Karpfel & M. Bezděk

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Kubíčková, D., Karpfel, Z. & Bezděk, M. Isolation and complementation analysis of temperature-sensitive mutants of the PS8 bacteriophage ofAgrobacterium tumefaciens . Folia Microbiol 21, 378–383 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02876964

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