Enrichment and elimination of mutY mutators in Escherichia coli populations

Genetics

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1055-1062

  Notley McRobb, Lucinda ^a   Seeto, Shona ^a   Ferenci, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; MUTAGENIC AGENT; DNA GLYCOSYLASE MUTY; DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSIDASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; KINETICS; MUTY GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; DNA REPAIR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

DNA GLYCOSYLASES; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSE; MUTATION; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036860714     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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