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Unexpected Discovery of Hypermutator Phenotype Sounds the Alarm for Quality Control Strains.
Genome biology and evolution - 3 Aug 2021
Wu Kun, Cheng Zhou-Hua, Williams Emily, Turner Nathan T, Ran Dapeng, Li Haichao, Zhou Xia, Guo Huilin, Sung Way, Liu Dong-Feng, Lynch Michael, Long Hongan
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Microbial strains with high genomic stability are particularly sought after for testing the quality of commercial microbiological products, such as biological media and antibiotics. Yet, using mutation-accumulation experiments and de novo assembled complete genomes based on Nanopore long-read sequencing, we find that the widely used quality-control strain Shewanella putrefaciens ATCC-8071, also a facultative...
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