Some features of the mutability of bacteria during nonlethal selection

Genetics

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-59

  Godoy, V G ^a   Gizatullin, F S ^a   Fox, Maurice S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; EPISOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERTANT;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; MUTATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033985128     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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