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Mutational Spectrum Drives the Rise of Mutator Bacteria

Understanding how mutator strains emerge in bacterial populations is relevant both to evolutionary theory and to reduce the threat they pose in clinical settings. The rise of mutator alleles is understood as a result of their hitchhiking with linked beneficial mutations, although the factors that go...

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Autores principales: Couce, Alejandro, Guelfo, Javier R., Blázquez, Jesús
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3542065/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23326242
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1003167