The consequences of growth of a mutator strain of Escherichia coli as measured by loss of function among multiple gene targets and loss of fitness

Genetics

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 959-970

  Funchain, Pauline ^a   Yeung, Annie ^a   Stewart, Jean Lee ^a   Lin, Rose ^a   Slupska, Malgorzata M ^a   Miller, Jeffrey H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FITNESS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MUTATOR GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034049514     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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