Normal Mutation Rate Variants Arise in a Mutator (Mut S) Escherichia coli Population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Turrientes, María Carmen ^a,b   Baquero, Fernando ^a,b,c   Levin, Bruce R ^d   Martínez, José Luis ^c,e   Ripoll, Aida ^a,b   González Alba, José María ^a,b   Tobes, Raquel ^f   Manrique, Marina ^f   Baquero, Maria Rosario ^g   Rodríguez Domínguez, Mario José ^a   Cantón, Rafael ^a,g   Galán, Juan Carlos ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTO RAMÓN Y CAJAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SANITARIA IRYCIS   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c Joint Unit for Antimicrobial Resistance and Virulence   (Spain)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^f African Development Bank   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSIDAD ALFONSO X EL SABIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOTE; MISMATCH REPAIR; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; MUTS GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; WILD TYPE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MUTATION RATE;

EID: 84884200756     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072963     Document Type: Article

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