Tabor H, Tabor C W, Hafner E W
J Bacteriol. 1976 Oct;128(1):485-6. doi: 10.1128/jb.128.1.485-486.1976.
A procedure is presented for the rapid screening of bacterial colonies to detect mutants unable to produce 14CO2 from a labeled precursor. The method is especially useful for mass screening for mutants that cannot be easily detected by their phenotypic characteristics.