Open AccessJoshua Lederberg on Bacterial Recombination
Author(s) -
Mark Johnston
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.792
H-Index - 246
eISSN - 1943-2631
pISSN - 0016-6731
DOI - 10.1534/genetics.116.190637
Subject(s) - biology , genetics , recombination , homologous recombination , evolutionary biology , dna , gene
![Figure][1] This paper describes the first genetic analysis of bacteria. Before its publication, most scientists wondered if bacteria even had genes. Many thought bacteria to be a distinct form of life, separate from higher organisms like Drosophila and maize, which were known to follow
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