Adaptive mutation and slow-growing revertants of an Escherichia coli lacZ amber mutant.

Abstract excerpt

We have studied revertants, selected on lactose minimal agar medium, of the Escherichia coli lacZam strain that was first used by Cairns and his colleagues to demonstrate the phenomenon of "adaptive mutation." We have found, by performing appropriate reconstruction studies, that most of the late-...

Topics

• Adaptation, Biological
• Escherichia coli
• Lac Operon
• Mutation