Abstract
A series of plasmids were isolated by ligation of defined restriction fragments to plasmid pBR325 or by screening of a cosmid bank by in situ colony hybridization. Together with 1 previously isolated plasmid, they spanned 86% of the 30.5- to 34-min region of the genetic map of E. coli K-12. Physical analysis of these plasmids and hybridizations to Southern blots confirmed the endonuclease map of this region, with the exception of a 9.3-kilobase pair inversion.