Methods for Determining Spontaneous Mutation Rates

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 409, Issue , 2006, Pages 195-213

  Foster, Patricia L ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; CALCULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTANT; MUTATION RATE; NOMENCLATURE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION;

LURIA;

EID: 33745211644     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(05)09012-9     Document Type: Review

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