λ bacteriophage

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  • In Franklin Stahl

    …recombination in the more complex λ bacteriophage, eventually locating a site (dubbed Chi) on its DNA sequence necessary to initiate recombination. The discovery, made in 1972, had implications for the use of bacteriophages in cloning, as well as for the general understanding of the recombination process. His later work elucidated…

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