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Adaptive amplification: an inducible chromosomal instability mechanism.
Cell - 22 Nov 2000
Hastings P J, Bull H J, Klump J R, Rosenberg S M
Abstract excerpt
Adaptive mutation is an induced response to environmental stress in which mutation rates rise, producing permanent genetic changes that can adapt cells to stress. This contrasts with neo-Darwinian views of genetic change rates blind to environmental conditions. DNA amplification is a flexible, reversible genomic change that has long been postulated to be adaptive. We report the discovery of adaptive amplification...
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