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Improved plating techniques and a fluctuation test have been used to distinguish between liquid holding recovery of ultraviolet-irradiated cells and cell multiplication in Escherichia coli. Among tested strains, only recA mutants showed true recovery.
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Aragão et al. (1980) studied this question.
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