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Evidence that stationary-phase hypermutation in the Escherichia coli chromosome is promoted by recombination.
Genetics - 1 Apr 2000
Bull H J, McKenzie G J, Hastings P J, Rosenberg S M
Abstract excerpt
Adaptive (or stationary-phase) mutation is a group of phenomena in which mutations appear to occur more often when selected than when not. They may represent cellular responses to the environment in which the genome is altered to allow survival. The best-characterized assay system and mechanism is reversion of a lac allele on an F' sex plasmid in Escherichia coli, in which the stationary-phase mutability requires...
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