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Initiation and Regulation of Transcription in Coliphage Lambda

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This chapter is an extended and updated but largely unreferenced summary of previous reviews (18–22). It discusses the transcriptional controls active during development of the bacteriophage λ. This phage provides a model system which permits critical study of the detailed mechanisms regulating gene expression.

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  1. McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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Szybalski, W. (1974). Initiation and Regulation of Transcription in Coliphage Lambda. In: Biswas, B.B., Mandal, R.K., Stevens, A., Cohn, W.E. (eds) Control of Transcription. Basic Life Sciences, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4529-9_16

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