Selection against hypermutability in Escherichia coli during long term evolution

MGG Molecular & General Genetics

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 1984, Pages 177-178

  Tröbner, Wolfgang ^a   Piechocki, Reinhard ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHEMOSTAT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; HEREDITY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0021749518     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: 16174623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00328720     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Competition between high and low mutating strains of Escherichia coli
2. Bacterial mutator genes and the control of spontaneous mutation
3. Selection for high mutation rates in chemostats
4. Fitness of an Escherichia coli mutator gene
5. Incidence of mutator strains in Escherichia coli and coliforms in nature
6. Observations on two types of genetic instability in Escherichia coli
7. Population changes in continuously growing mutator cultures of Escherichia coli
8. +Competition growth between Escherichia coli mutL and mut in continuously growing cultures