Mutations Conferring Quantitative and Qualitative Increases in Beta-galactosidase Activity in Escherichia Coli

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Journal Mol Gen Genet

Specialties Genetics
Molecular Biology

Date 1969 Jan 1

PMID 4899399

Citations 16

Authors

J Langridge

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