Transience of the donor state in an Escherichia coli K12 strain carrying a repressed R factor.
De-repression of the plasmid R100 in Escherichia coli is essentially a transient phenomenon resulting in the transfer of several R factors to different recipient cells from a single donor cell.
D003227:Conjugation, Genetic; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000502:physiology*; D005809:Genes, Regulator; D009154:Mutation; D010957:Plasmids; D011815:R Factors