Fluctuation tests: how reliable are the estimates of mutation rates?

doi:10.1093/genetics/137.4.1139

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Fluctuation tests: how reliable are the estimates of mutation rates?

Genetics - 1 Aug 1994

Stewart F M

Abstract excerpt

Fifty one years ago, Luria and Delbrück published in Genetics a paper that was to become a classic. In it they proved, beyond all reasonable doubt, that bacteria were mutating to phage resistance long before they could have encountered any bacteriophage. Luria and Delbrück also showed how the sam...

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Bacteria
Computer Simulation
Genetic Techniques
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Stochastic Processes

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