Environmental stresses can alleviate the average deleterious effect of mutations

Journal of Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Kishony, Roy ^a   Leibler, Stanislas ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FITNESS; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; STRESS; WILD TYPE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; COLD; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LUMINESCENCE; MUTATION; OSMOLARITY; PH; PROCEDURES; REPORTER GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CULTURE MEDIUM; LUCIFERASE;

COLD TEMPERATURE; CULTURE MEDIA; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, REPORTER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENCE; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION;

EID: 0041853578     PISSN: 14785854     EISSN: 14754924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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