Competition between high-and higher-mutating strains of Escherichia coli

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 422-424

  Gentile, Christopher F ^a   Yu, Szi Chieh ^b   Serrano, Sebastian Akle ^a   Gerrish, Philip J ^c,d   Sniegowski, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Asexual populations; Hitchhiking; Mutation rate; Mutator

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MUTATION; REPRODUCTIVE COST;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION;

ALLELES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MUTATION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79960838115     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.1036     Document Type: Article

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