The rise and fall of mutator bacteria

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 582-585

  Giraud, Antoine ^a   Radman, Miroslav ^a   Matic, Ivan ^a   Taddei, François ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW;

EID: 0034791722     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(00)00254-X     Document Type: Review

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