A note on plating efficiency in fluctuation experiments

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 150-153

  Zheng, Qi ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Luria Delbr ck experimental protocol; Maximum likelihood estimate; Mutation rate

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; PLATING;

ESTIMATION METHODS; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS; INTERVAL ESTIMATES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE; MUTANT CELLS; MUTATION RATE; MUTATION RATES; PLATING EFFICIENCIES;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MUTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MUTANT; CELL SURVIVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MUTATION RATE; PLATING MEDIUM; POINT MUTATION; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION;

LURIA;

EID: 56049108085     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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