Mechanisms of mutation in nondividing cells. Insights from the study of adaptive mutation in Escherichia coli

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 870, Issue , 1999, Pages 133-145

  Foster, Patricia L ^a,b   Rosche, William A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTOSE;

ALLELE; CELL DIVISION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SYNTHESIS; EPISOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032813391     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08873.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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