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The microbiology of mutability.

FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Dec 2007

Sundin George W, Weigand Michael R

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Bacteria possessing elevated spontaneous mutation rates are prevalent in certain environments, which is a paradox because most mutations are deleterious. For example, cells with defects in the methyl-directed mismatch repair (MMR) system, termed mutators or hypermutators, are overrepresented in populations of bacterial pathogens, with the mutator trait hypothesized to be advantageous in the changing host...

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PMID: 17714481
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00901.x

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