Rebuttal: Adaptive Mutation in Escherichia coli (Foster)
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Rebuttal: adaptive mutation in Escherichia coli (Foster).
If mutations arose in nongrowing cells, as proposed in Foster’s paper (1), then stress-induced mutagenesis would seem inescapable. The plated population certainly grows very little. However, no evidence is provided that reversion occurs in this population and no effort is made to counter evidence to the contrary (see below)—that mutations actually arise in cells growing under selection within d...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Bacteriology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0021-9193,1098-5530
DOI: 10.1128/jb.186.15.4854.2004