Historical Highlight: The Luria-Delbrück Fluctuation Test - A Study of the Nature of Bacterial Mutations Conferring Resistance to Infection by Bacteriophage

• Príomhchruthaitheoirí: Neil S. Greenspan (Údar), Emily Kukan (Údar)
• Formáid: LEABHAR
• Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Case Western Reserve University, 2024-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Ábhair: article
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In 1943, Salvador Luria, then at Indiana University, and Max Delbrück, then at Vanderbilt, published an analysis of mutations in Escherichia coli conferring resistance to infection by bacterial viruses, also referred to as bacteriophages [1]. Of note, Luria and Delbrück advanced our understanding...