Transient and heritable mutators in adaptive evolution in the lab and in nature

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1559-1566

  Rosenberg, Susan M ^a,b   Thulin, Carl ^a   Harris, Reuben S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HERITABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MUTATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031894493     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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