Does mutation rate depend on itself?

PLoS Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 0233-0235

  Baer, Charles F ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CHLAMYDOMONAS; DIET; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SOMATIC MUTATION; X CHROMOSOME; ARTICLE; GENETICS; MUTATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION;

EID: 40149111234     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060052     Document Type: Review

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