The origin of mutants

MUTATIONS OF BACTERIA FROM VIRUS SENSITIVITY TO VIRUS RESISTANCE

S. E. Luria, M. Delbrück · Genetics · 1943 · 3.9K citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Microbiology +17

The distribution of the numbers of mutants in bacterial populations

D. E. Lea, C. A. Coulson · Journal of Genetics · 1949 · 1.5K citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Microbiology +11

REPLICA PLATING AND INDIRECT SELECTION OF BACTERIAL MUTANTS

Joshua Lederberg, Esther M. Lederberg · Journal of Bacteriology · 1952 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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Insertion of DNA activates the cryptic bgl operon in E. coli K12

Ann E. Reynolds, Jeffrey Felton, Andrew Wright · Nature · 1981 · 256 citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Microbiology +13

Observations on the formation of clones containing araB-lacZ cistron fusions

James A. Shapiro · Molecular and General Genetics MGG · 1984 · 194 citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +4