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Determinants of spontaneous mutation in the bacterium Escherichia coli as revealed by whole-genome sequencing

A complete understanding of evolutionary processes requires that factors determining spontaneous mutation rates and spectra be identified and characterized. Using mutation accumulation followed by whole-genome sequencing, we found that the mutation rates of three widely diverged commensal Escherichi...

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Published in:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS 2015-11, Vol.112 (44), p.E5990-E5999
Main Authors: Foster, Patricia L, Lee, Heewook, Popodi, Ellen, Townes, Jesse P, Tang, Haixu
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Bacteria
Biological Sciences
Deoxyribonucleic acid
DNA
DNA damage
DNA Repair
E coli
Escherichia coli
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Genes, Bacterial
Genomes
Mutation
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