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Low abundance of Escherichia coli microsatellites is associated with an extremely low mutation rate.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Sept 2006
Schlötterer C, Imhof M, Wang H, Nolte V, Harr B
Abstract excerpt
It is widely assumed that microsatellites are generated by replication slippage, a mutation process specific to repetitive DNA. Consistent with their high mutation rate, microsatellites are highly abundant in most eukaryotic genomes. In Escherichia coli, however, microsatellites are rare and short despite the fact that a high microsatellite mutation rate was described. We show that this high microsatellite...
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