Plasmids 101: A Brief History of Plasmids and an Improved eBook!
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Oct. 29, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
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Datta, Naomi. “Transmissible Drug Resistance in an Epidemic Strain of Salmonella...factors that could be transferred between cells. At the time, these extranuclear agents of heredity were...and the labels applied to them were vague or contradictory, owing in part to the fact that very little ...Latin for 'it'), as “a generic term for any extrachromsomal hereditary determinant”. His proposal, however...1960s when scientists began to study other extrachromosomal particles, particularly Resistance or R-factors...R-factors. Like F-factors, R-factors could be transferred between bacteria via cell-to-cell contact; however...experiment. Dr. Cohen and colleagues treated a tetracycline resistant plasmid, pSC101, and a newly developed...