xxii Introduction 



Before closing this introduction, we must once more call attention to the 

 necessarily very limited and quite arbitrarily restricted scope of this collection. 

 Not only do the twenty-five papers presented make up a very small fraction of 

 the important contributions to the study of bacterial viruses, but even the 

 references listed on the following pages are by no means an adequate, or even 

 representative, coverage of the relevant literature. Some impression of the 

 extent of that literature can be gained from the astounding bacteriophage 

 bibliography prepared by Raettig (127), which lists no fewer than 5655 

 papers published between 1917 and 1956! The reader who wishes to acquire 

 a more profound knowledge of this subject without working his way through 

 these 5655 papers may do so by studying some of the books and reviews on 

 bacterial viruses which have appeared over the years. This study might begin 

 with Adams' book Bacteriophages (1), the most authoritative and compre- 

 hensive treatment available at present, and with the more specialized chapters 

 in Burnet and Stanley's treatise The Viruses (115, 58, 140, 102, 85, 136). More 

 easily digestible works are Weidel's little book Virus ( 153 ) , a sprightly intro- 

 duction to bacterial viruses, and Afinsen's The Molecular Basis of Evolution 

 (6) which contains an account of the role of bacterial viruses in avant-garde 

 molecular biology. A first-hand acquaintance with the evolution of bacterial 

 virus research can be obtained by perusal of the reviews of Bronfenbrenner of 

 1928 (30), Bordet of 1931 (19), Burnet of 1934 (33), Delbriick of 1942 and 

 1946 (41, 42), Cohen of 1949 (38), Luria of 1950 (107) and Hershey of 1952, 

 1953, 1956, and 1957 (69, 70, 72, 73). Finally, some other important reviews 

 that treat special aspects of bacterial viruses are those of Luria (109), Brenner 

 (25), and Jacob and Wollman (86, 79). 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 



1. Adams, M. H. "Bacteriophages," Interscience, New York, 1959. 



2. Adams, M. H., and Lark, G. Mutation to heat resistance in coliphage T5. /. 

 Immunol, 64, 335 (1950). 



3. Anderson, T. F. The reactions of bacterial viruses with their host cells. Botan. Rev., 

 15, 464 (1949). 



4. Anderson, T. F. Destruction of bacterial viruses b}^ osmotic shock. J . Appl. Phys., 

 21, 70 (1950). 



5. Anderson, T. F. The morphology and osmotic properties of bacteriophage systems. 

 Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol., 18, 197 (1953). 



6. Anfinsen, C. B. "The Molecular Basis of Evolution." John Wiley and Sons, New 

 York, 1959. 



7. Appleyard, R. Segregation of lambda lysogenicity during bacterial recombination in 

 Escherichia coli K12. Genetics, 39, 429(1954). 



8. Bail, O. Der Colistamm 88 von Gildemeister und Herzberg. Med. Klin. (Munich), 

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