Adaptive mutation: How growth under selection stimulates Lac+ reversion by increasing target copy number

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 4855-4860

  Roth, John R ^a   Andersson, Dan I ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE;

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE MUTATION; ALLELE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BASE PAIRING; DINB GENE; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; LACTOSE OPERON; MUTAGENESIS; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REGULON; REVERTANT; REVIEW; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; LAC OPERON; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 3242742140     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.15.4855-4860.2004     Document Type: Review

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