Cosmid at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is Cosmid? Artificially constructed cloning vector containing the cos gene of phage lambda. Cosmids can be packaged in lambda p0hage particles for infection into E. coli: this permits cloning of larger DNA fragments (up to 45kb) that can be introduced into bacterial

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