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Contribution of increased mutagenesis to the evolution of pollutants-degrading indigenous bacteria.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Ilmjärv Tanel, Naanuri Eve, Kivisaar Maia
Abstract excerpt
Bacteria can rapidly evolve mechanisms allowing them to use toxic environmental pollutants as a carbon source. In the current study we examined whether the survival and evolution of indigenous bacteria with the capacity to degrade organic pollutants could be connected with increased mutation frequency. The presence of constitutive and transient mutators was monitored among 53 pollutants-degrading indigenous...
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