Transformation of genetic traits by the DNA prepared from a lysogenic phage S-1

Abstract

An experimental system involving both transformation and transduction was recently established in Bacillus subtilis Marburg (1,2,3), but there appears to be no published account of the transformation by the DNA prepared from the transducing phage (SP-10). The bacteriophage S-1 described in this paper is a temperate phage different in some respects from the SP-10. Details of the experimental methods and the specificities of the phage are to be reported elsewhere.