The wild-type is known as a 'helper' phage as it enables lambda dgal to efficiently integrate into the E. coli chromosome. Click for specialised transduction diagram. Back to top of page. Uses of transduction. Generalised transduction can be used to derive linkage information between genes, the co-transduction frequency can be calculated.
Specialised transduction is useful for moving genes between bacterial strains.
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