Competition between transposable elements and mutator genes in bacteria

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3153-3159

  Fehér, Tamás ^a   Bogos, Balázs ^a   Méhi, Orsolya ^a   Fekete, Gergely ^a   Csörg, Bálint ^a   Kovács, Károly ^a   Pósfai, György ^a   Papp, Balázs ^a,b   Hurst, Laurence D ^c   Pál, Csaba ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

evolution; IS elements; mutation rate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; INOCULATION; MISMATCH REPAIR; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MUTATOR GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSPOSON;

DNA MISMATCH REPAIR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOTYPE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; OPERON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84866940698     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss122     Document Type: Article

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