Evidence that stationary-phase hypermutation in the Escherichia coli chromosome is promoted by recombination

Genetics

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1427-1437

  Bull, Harold J ^a,b   McKenzie, Gregory J ^a,b   Hastings, P J ^a   Rosenberg, Susan M ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034088420     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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