Adaptive mutation: a general phenomenon or special case?

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A recent article by Galitski and Roth characterizes adaptive reversion of chromosomal lac- mutations in Salmonella typhimurium LT2. Using a classical genetic approach they show that adaptive reversion, as characterized by the appearance of late revertant colonies, is an exception rather than a general phenomenon for reversion of nonsense, missense, frameshift and insertion mutations. For certain mutations,...

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