Is there a link between mutation rates and the stringent response in Bacillus subtilis?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 870, Issue , 1999, Pages 418-422

  Rudner, Rivka ^a   Murray, Audrey ^a   Huda, Nazmul ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL MUTATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0032775768     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08917.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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