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Science 9 October 1964:
Vol. 146. no. 3641, pp. 254 - 255
DOI: 10.1126/science.146.3641.254
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Electron Microscopy of Single-Stranded DNA: Circularity of DNA of Bacteriophage phiX174

David Freifelder 1, Albrecht K. Kleinschmidt 2, and Robert L. Sinsheimer 3

1 Donner Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
2 Virus Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
3 Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

The single-stranded DNA of coliphage phiX174 has been examined with the electron microscope by a modification of the protein-monolayer-adsorption technique. The molecules were found to be circular with a total length of 1.77 ± 0.13 microns.


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