A model for damage load and its implications for the evolution of bacterial aging

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Chao, Lin ^a  

^a University of California San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL AGING; CELL DIVISION; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAUGHTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC DAMAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METAZOON; MICROORGANISM; MOTHER; MUTATION RATE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA DAMAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; METAZOA;

EID: 77957364706     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001076     Document Type: Article

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