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E. coli Lab Strains for Studying the Lac-Operon

Strain IDGenotype
This Group: Historic Laboratory Strains from 1928
K-12lac+
CSH57lac+
CSH58lacZ-
W3110lac+
gal+lac+
gal-lac+
C600lacY-
This Group: Truly Wild Strains
O2:K5 (Portugal)lac?-
04lac+
O9lac+
O12lacleaky
O16:K1 (Denmark)lac?-
O18ac:K1 ("Bort")lac+
O75:K1 (Denmark)lac+
O88lac+
O111:B7lac+