Confounders of mutation-rate estimators: Selection and phenotypic lag in Thermus thermophilus

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 749, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 16-20

  Kissling, Grace E ^a   Grogan, Dennis W ^b   Drake, John W ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential growth rates; Fluctuation test; Mutation rate; Phenotypic lag

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GROWTH RATE; HOMOZYGOSITY; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC LAG; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

DIFFERENTIAL GROWTH RATES; FLUCTUATION TEST; MUTATION RATE; PHENOTYPIC LAG;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 84885180119     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: 09218262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2013.07.006     Document Type: Article

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