Specificity of transcription-enhanced mutations

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 870, Issue , 1999, Pages 383-385

  Longacre, Angelika ^a   Reimers, Jacqueline M ^a   Wright, Barbara E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ALLELE; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION;

EID: 0032811043     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08908.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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