Are adaptive mutations due to a decline in mismatch repair? The evidence is lacking

Mutation Research - Reviews in Mutation Research

Volumn 436, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 179-184

  Foster, Patricia L ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive mutation; DNA polymerase error; Mismatch repair; Mutation; Spontaneous mutation; Stationary phase; Stationary phase mutation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BASE MISPAIRING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LACTOSE OPERON; METABOLISM; MUTATION; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LAC OPERON; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS); TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 33645725339     PISSN: 13835742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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