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Occurrence of leu+ revertants under starvation cultures in Escherichia coli is growth-dependent.
BMC genetics - 25 Apr 2002
Jin Jianling, Gao Peiji, Mao Yumin
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BACKGROUND: Many investigations have reported that advantageous mutations occurred more frequently under selective conditions than those under non-selective conditions. This phenomenon is referred to as adaptive mutation. Their characteristics are that adaptive mutations are directed and growth-independent. The idea of directed adaptive mutation had been objected by some reports, however, the idea of...
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