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Actinophage as a Mutagenic Factor
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Actinophage as a Mutagenic Factor

  • S. I. ALIKHANIAN1 &
  • T. S. ILJINA1 

Nature volume 179, page 784 (1957)Cite this article

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IT is known that the actinophage destroys only those cells that possess specific sensitivity to it. Cells which survive form colonies with a changed structure of the surface and acquire a number of new physiological properties1.

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  1. Carvaial, E., Mycologia, 45, 2, 209 (1953).

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ALIKHANIAN, S., ILJINA, T. Actinophage as a Mutagenic Factor. Nature 179, 784 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/179784a0

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