Whole Genome Sequencing of Mutation Accumulation Lines Reveals a Low Mutation Rate in the Social Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Saxer, Gerda ^a   Havlak, Paul ^a,b   Fox, Sara A ^a   Quance, Michael A ^b   Gupta, Sharu ^b   Fofanov, Yuriy ^b   Strassmann, Joan E ^c   Queller, David C ^c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA;

AMOEBA (GENUS); ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEM; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; EUKARYOTE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED MICROSATELLITE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VEGETATION;

DICTYOSTELIUM; GENOME; MUTATION;

EID: 84867301449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046759     Document Type: Article

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