Encoded errors: Mutations and rearrangements mediated by misalignment at repetitive DNA sequences

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1243-1253

  Lovett, Susan T ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; BASE MISPAIRING; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ERROR; EVOLUTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHORT SURVEY;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 2942630097     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04076.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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