Article
Death and transfiguration among bacteria.
Trends in biochemical sciences - 1 Jun 1992
Higgins N P
Abstract excerpt
When bacteria are placed in sub-optimal environments, they can respond by increasing the frequency of mutants created by base substitution, frame-shift and transposition mutations. Also, during periods of restrictive growth, 'dead' bacterial cells may transfer genetic material to neighboring colony-forming cells. This can be beneficial, resulting in a heterogeneous population that may exhibit differentiation and...
Topics
- Cell Death
- Colony Count, Microbial
- DNA Transposable Elements
- DNA, Bacterial
- Escherichia coli
- Genetic Variation
- Mutation
- Nucleotidyltransferases
- Salmonella typhimurium
- Transformation, Bacterial
- Transposases