Mutation accumulation and fitness in mutator subpopulations of Escherichia coli

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Maharjan, Ram P ^a   Liu, Bin ^b,c   Li, Yang ^b,c   Reeves, Peter R ^a   Wang, Lei ^b,c   Ferenci, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Bacterial genomics; Experimental evolution; Mutators

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHEMOSTAT; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENOME; LABORATORY METHOD; MUTATION; SUBPOPULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

DNA GLYCOSYLASE MUTY; DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; MUTATION RATE; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; TIME;

ALLELES; DNA GLYCOSYLASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MUTATION RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84872016110     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0961     Document Type: Article

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