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Strain EMG5

• CGSC#: 4479
• Strain Designation

  Designation	Source	Preference
  EMG5	Clowes & Hayes	1
  KF53		2

  
  
• Sex(Hfr,F+,F-,or F'): ?
• 1 Mutations:

  Mutation	Location	Certainty	Display
  trpC9999	28.38	1	trpC9999

  
  
• Comments:
  • We know relatively little about this strain except that it is trpC^-. It is said to be a Yanofsky strain.
• References:
  • Clowes, R., W. Hayes 1968. Experiments in microbial genetics
  
  

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