Studies in Microbic Heredity

[摘要] In a previous paper (1) we described rather paradoxical serologic interrelationships between four variant strains of an alkaligenes bacillus that had been derived experimentally from a common ancestor. Three of these strains, namely, K-97, K-84 and K-160, morphologically diverse, were serologically reciprocal and a fourth, K-134 showed a typical group and specific agglutinin interrelationship with strains K-97 and K-84. This is the equivalent of saying that the anti-serum of K-134 apparently did not contain agglutinins for K-97 and K-84 although their antisera contained group agglutinins for K-134.Inasmuch as such relationships are quite well known they would not have been questioned had not the strain K-160 agglutinated in the supposedly specific K-134 antiserum, but since K-160 was serologically identical with K-97 and K-84 we sought the reason why these latter two strains did not also agglutinate in the specific anti-serum of K-134.

[学科分类] 生物科学（综合）