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Size Fractionation of Exponentially Growing Escherichia coli

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A new method for differentiating between bacteria of different sizes in a single population is used to show that the rate of synthesis of RNA in a population of Escherichia coli varies linearly with the size of the cell.

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MANOR, H., HASELKORN, R. Size Fractionation of Exponentially Growing Escherichia coli. Nature 214, 983–986 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214983a0

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