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Rates and mechanisms of bacterial mutagenesis from maximum-depth sequencing.
Nature - 30 Jun 2016
Jee Justin, Rasouly Aviram, Shamovsky Ilya, Akivis Yonatan, Steinman Susan R, Mishra Bud, Nudler Evgeny
Abstract excerpt
In 1943, Luria and Delbrück used a phage-resistance assay to establish spontaneous mutation as a driving force of microbial diversity. Mutation rates are still studied using such assays, but these can only be used to examine the small minority of mutations conferring survival in a particular condition. Newer approaches, such as long-term evolution followed by whole-genome sequencing, may be skewed by mutational...
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