EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS - DIRECTED MUTATIONS SLIP-SLIDING AWAY

Authors
LENSKI RE SNIEGOWSKI PD
Citation
Re. Lenski et Pd. Sniegowski, EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS - DIRECTED MUTATIONS SLIP-SLIDING AWAY, Current biology, 5(2), 1995, pp. 97-99
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Biology,Biology
Journal title
Current biology → ACNP
ISSN journal
09609822
Volume
5
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
97 - 99
Database
ISI
SICI code
0960-9822(1995)5:2<97:EG-DMS>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Adaptive frameshift mutations in the lacZ gene of Escherichia coli are , unusually, nearly all short deletions, perhaps caused by slipped-str and mispairings in mononucleotide runs. But are they directed?