Luria-Delbrück fluctuation experiments: design and analysis.

doi:10.1093/genetics/136.3.1209

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Luria-Delbrück fluctuation experiments: design and analysis.

Genetics - 1 Mar 1994

Jones M E, Thomas S M, Rogers A

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Luria and Delbrück, in a seminal paper, introduced fluctuation analysis primarily as a means to elucidate the timing of mutation in relation to the imposition of selective conditions. Their work, and subsequently that of LEA and COULSON, established also a basis for measuring the frequency of mut...

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Biometry
Computer Simulation
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Probability

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