Mechanisms of stationary phase mutation: A decade of adaptive mutation

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue , 1999, Pages 57-88

  Foster, P L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Directed mutation; Evolution; Hypermutation; Selection; Spontaneous mutation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; MUTATION;

EID: 0033390088     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.33.1.57     Document Type: Review

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