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ONE unusual feature of the system of sexual recombination occurring in Escherichia coli is the infectious nature of the F factor. F – strains may be readily converted to F + by growing the two types together1,2.
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HOLLOWAY, B., JENNINGS, P. An Infectious Fertility Factor for Pseudomonas aeruginosa . Nature 181, 855–856 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181855b0
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