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Investigation of reversion rates and sequencing of amino-acids has shown that one mutational hot spot in bacteriophage T4 is probably a sequence of six identical bases
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OKADA, Y., STREISINGER, G., (EMRICH) OWEN, J. et al. Molecular Basis of a Mutational Hot Spot in the Lysozyme Gene of Bacteriophage T4. Nature 236, 338–341 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/236338a0
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