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ANALYSIS of mixed cultures of nutritional mutants has revealed the presence of new types which strongly suggest the occurrence of a sexual process in the bacterium, Escherichia coli.
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LEDERBERG, J., TATUM, E. Gene Recombination in Escherichia Coli. Nature 158, 558 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158558a0
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