Eight mutant bacteriophage strains cannot lyse a certain type of bacteria that can be lysed by wild-type bacteriophages. The mutant strains were allowed to infect the bacteria in a complementation test. A "+' indicates that lysis occurred with coinfection. A indicates that lysis did not occur. GKWTMAGC +++ ++
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