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On the mutational topology of the bacterial genome.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 1 Mar 2013
Foster Patricia L, Hanson Andrew J, Lee Heewook, Popodi Ellen M, Tang Haixu
Abstract excerpt
By sequencing the genomes of 34 mutation accumulation lines of a mismatch-repair defective strain of Escherichia coli that had undergone a total of 12,750 generations, we identified 1625 spontaneous base-pair substitutions spread across the E. coli genome. These mutations are not distributed at random but, instead, fall into a wave-like spatial pattern that is repeated almost exactly in mirror image in the two...
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