Plasmids: Histories of a Concept

Early Bibliography of Plasmid Research (Pre-1960)

1944
R. R. Roepke, R. L. Libby, and M. H. Small. Mutation or variation of Escherichia coli with respect to growth requirements. J. Bact. 48 (1944), 401-12.

1946
J. Lederberg, and E. L. Tatum. Novel genotypes in mixed cultures of biochemical mutants of bacteria. Cold Spring Harb. Symp. Quant. Biol., 11 (1946), 113-4.

J. Lederberg, and E. L. Tatum. Gene recombination in E.coli. Nature 158 (1946), 558.

1947
J. Lederberg. Gene recombination and linked segregations in Escherichia coli. Genetics 32 (1947), 505-25.

1949
J. Lederberg. Aberrant heterozygotes in Escherichia coli. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 35 (1949), 178-84.

1950
L. L. Cavalli-Sforza. La sessualita nei batteri. Boll. Ist. Sieroter., Milano, 29 (1950), 281-9. B. D. Davis. Non-filtrability of the agents of genetic recombination in E. coli. J. Bact., 60 (1950), 507-8.

A. L. Houwink, and W. van Iterson. Electron microscopical observations on bacterial cytology. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 5 (1950), 10-44.

1951
J. Lederberg, E. M. Lederberg, N. D. Zinder, and E. R. Lively. Recombination analysis of bacterial heredity. Cold Spring Harb. Symp. Quant. Biol.16 (1951), 413-43.

J. Lederberg. Streptomycin resistance: a genetically recessive mutation. J. Bact., 61 (1951), 549- 50.

1952
W. Hayes. Genetic recombination in Bact. coli K12: analysis of the stimulating effect of ultraviolet light. Nature 169 (1952), 1017.

W. Hayes. Recombination in Bact. coli K12: unidirectional transfer of genetic material. Nature, 169 (1952), 118.

J. Lederberg, L. L. Cavalli, and E. M. Lederberg. Sex compatibility in Escherichia coli. Genetics 37 (1952), 720-30.

J. Lederberg. Cell genetics and hereditary symbiosis. Physiol. Rev., 32 (1952), 403-30.

J. Lederberg, and E. M. Lederberg. Replica plating and indirect selection of bacterial mutants. J. Bact., 63 (1952), 399-406.

1953
P. Frédéricq, and M. Betz-Bareau. Transfert génétique de la propriété colicinogène chez E.coli. C. r. Soc. Biol., 147 (1953), 1110-2.

P. Frédéricq, and M. Betz-Bareau. Transfert génétique de la propriété de produire un antibiotique. C r. Soc. Biol., 147 (1953), 1653-6.

P. Frédéricq, . Colicines et bactériophages. Annls Inst. Pasteur 84 (1953), 294-313.

L. L. Cavalli, J. Lederberg, and E. M. Lederberg. An infective factor controlling sex compatibility in Bacterium coli. J. Gen. Microbiol. 8 (1953), 89-103.

P. Armitage. Statistical concepts in the theory of bacterial mutation. J. Hyg. 51 (1953), 162- 84.

W. Hayes. Observations on a transmissible agent determining sexual differentiation in Bact. coli. J. Gen. Microbiol., 8 (1953), 72-88.

W. Hayes. The mechanism of genetic recombination in Escherichia coli. Cold Spring Harb. Symp. Quant. Biol., 18 (1953), 75-93.

J. D. Watson, and W. Hayes. Genetic exchange in E.coli K12: evidence for three linkage groups. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 39 (1953), 416-26.

1954
P. Frédéricq, . Intervention du facteur de polarité sexuelle F dans la transduction des propriétés colicinogènes chez Escherichia coli. C. r. Soc. Biol., 148 (1954), 746-8.

P. Frédéricq, . Transduction génétique des propriétés colicinogènes chez Escherichia coli et Shigella sonnei. C. r. Soc. Biol., 148 (1954), 399-402.

F. Jacob. Biosynthèse induite et mode d'action d'une pyocin, antibiotique de Pseudomonas pyocyanea. Annls Inst. Pasteur 86 (1954), 149-60.

F. Jacob, and E. Wollman. Induction spontanée de developpement du bactériophage an cours de la recombinaison génétique chez Escherichia coli K12. C. r. Acad. Sci. 239 (1954), 317-9.

1955
E. S. Anderson, and A. Fraser. The influence of the factors determining Vi-type specificity in Salmonella typhi on the adaptation of Vi-phage 11. J. Gen. Microbiol. 13 (1955), 519-32.

F. J. Ryan, P. Fried, and F. Mukai. A colicin produced by cells that are sensitive to it. Biochim. Biophys. Acta., 18 (1955), 131.

G. A. Maccacaro. Cell surface and fertility in Escherichia coll. Nature 176 (1955), 125-6.

1956
J. Lederberg. Conjugal pairing in E.coli. J. Bact., 71 (1956)9 497-8.

E. S. Anderson, and R. E. O. Williams. Bacteriophage typing of enteric pathogens and staphylococci and its use in epidemiology. J. Clin. Path. 9 (1956), 94-127.

F. Jacob, and E. L. Wollman. Recombinaison génétique et mutants de fertilité chez Escherichia coli. C. r. Acad. Sci. 242 (1956), 303-6.

H. Ozeki. Abortive transduction in purine-requiring mutants of Salmonella typhimurium. Publ. Carneg. Inst. 612 (1956), 97-106.

1957
P. D. Skaar, A. Richter, and J. Lederberg. Correlated selection for motility and sex- incompatibility in Escherichia coli K12. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci U.S.A., 43 (1957), 329-33

J. Lederberg. Sibling recombinants in zygote pedigrees of Escherichia coli. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 43 (1957), 1060-65.

F. Jacob, and E. L. Wollman. Analyse des groupes de liaison génétique de différentes souches donatrices d'Escherichia coli K12. C. r. Acad. Sci. 245 (1957), 1840-3.

T. F. Anderson, E. L. Wollman, and F. Jacob. Sur les processus de conjugaison et de recombinaison chez E. coli. III. Aspects morphologiques en microscopie électronique. Annls Inst. Pasteur 93 (1957), 450-5.

G. Furness, and D. Rowley. The presence of the transmissible agent F in nonrecombining strains of Escherichia coli. J. Gen. Microbiol., 17 (1957), 550-61.

T. F. Anderson, and R. Maz‚. Analyse de la descendance de zygotes formés par conjugaison chez E.coli K12. Annls Inst. Pasteur 93 (1957), 194-8.

1958
N. B. Groman, M. Eaton, and Z. Booher. Studies of mono- and polylysogenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae. J. Bact., 75 (1958), 320-5.

H. L. Bernstein. Fertility factors in Escherichla coli. Symp. Soc. Exp. Biol., 12 (1958), 93- 103.

F. Jacob, and E. L. Wollman. Les episomes, éléments génétiques ajoutés. C. r. Acad. Sci. 247 (1958), 154-5.

G. Bertani. Lysogeny. Adv. Virus Res. 5 (1958), 151-94.

G. Iv novics, and E. Nagy. Hereditary aberrancy in growth of some Bacillus megaterium strains. J. Gen. Microbiol. 19 (1958), 407-18.

1959
H. Ozeki, B. A. D. Stocker, and H. de Margerie. Production of colicin by single bacteria. Nature 184, (1959), 337-9.

A. B. Pardee, F. Jacob, and J. Monod. The genetic control and cytoplasmic expression of 'inducibility' in the synthesis of g-galactosidase by E.coli. J. Molec. Biol., 1 (1959), 165-78.

L. S. Baron, W. F. Carey, and W. M. Spilman. Characteristics of a high frequency of recombination (HFR) strain of Salmonella typhosa compatible with Salmonella, Shigella and Escherichia species. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 45 (1959), 1752-7.

F. Jacob, and E. A. Adelberg. Transfert de charactères génétiques par incorporation au facteur sexuel d'Escherichia coli. C. r. Acad. Sci. 249 (1959), 189-91.

L. L. Cavalli-Sforza. Recombination in bacteria. In Recent Progress in Microbiology, (1959), pp. 40-50. Ed. by G. Tunevall. Stockholm; Almqvist & Wiksell.

G. G. Meynell. Use of superinfecting phage for estimating the division rate of lysogenic bacteria in infected animals. J. Gen. Microbiol. 21 (1959), 421-37.

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