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High mutation rates limit evolutionary adaptation in Escherichia coli

Mutation is fundamental to evolution, because it generates the genetic variation on which selection can act. In nature, genetic changes often increase the mutation rate in systems that range from viruses and bacteria to human tumors. Such an increase promotes the accumulation of frequent deleterious...

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Autores principales: Sprouffske, Kathleen, Aguilar-Rodríguez, José, Sniegowski, Paul, Wagner, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5942850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29702649
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007324