SEGREGATION OF LAMBDA LYSOGENICITY DURING BACTERIAL RECOMBINATION IN E. COLI K-12

Abstract

Lederberg and Lederberg (1953) and Wollman (1953) have shown that in lysogenic by non-lysogenic crosses of E. coli K-12, lambda lysogenicity is closely linked to a galactose marker, although Wollman has suggested the possibility that neither character plays any part in genetic recombination. A genetic component of lysogenicity must therefore exist in the system lambda-E. coli K-12. Whether it is a simple compatibility gene, or controls the stability of cytoplasmic particles or whether more than a single bacterial gene is involved we cannot tell from lysogenic by non-lysogenic crosses alone.