Kaiser D, Dworkin M
Science. 1975 Feb 21;187(4177):653-4. doi: 10.1126/science.803710.
Myxococcus xanthus is a bacterium with an interest for studies of development because it has an organized multicellular phase in its life cycle. Bacteriophage Pl can adsorb to M. xanthus and inject its DNA into this organism despite the wide taxonomic gap separating myxococcus from Escherichia coli, the source of Pl. A specialized transducing derivative of Pl, called PlCM, can carry a gene for chloramphenicol resistance from E. coli into M. xanthus and generate unstable drug-resistant strains.
黄色粘球菌是一种在发育研究方面具有研究价值的细菌，因为它在生命周期中具有有组织的多细胞阶段。尽管粘球菌与噬菌体P1的来源大肠杆菌在分类学上差距很大，但噬菌体P1仍能吸附到黄色粘球菌上并将其DNA注入该生物体。P1的一种特殊转导衍生物，称为P1CM，可以将来自大肠杆菌的氯霉素抗性基因携带到黄色粘球菌中，并产生不稳定的耐药菌株。
