Week 10 (Identification of recombinant phages)

  • Identification of recombinant phages
    • Insertional inactivation of a lacZ′ gene
    • Insertional inactivation of the λ cI gene
    • Selection using the Spi phenotype
    • Selection on the basis of λ genome size
  • Bacteriophage Genomic library
  • cDNA Library

Reading List 

  1. Brown T. A., Gene Cloning and DNA Manipulation- An Introduction (2006) 5th Ed., Blackwell Publishmg Inc., USA
  2. Prinrose S.B., Twyman R.M., and Old R.W. (2006) Principles of Gene Manipulation, 6th Ed., pp. 50-55.