Hypermutation under stress

Bryn A. Bridges
Additional contact information
Bryn A. Bridges: MRC Cell Mutation Unit, University of Sussex

Nature, 1997, vol. 387, issue 6633, 557-558

Abstract: When microorganisms are starved of nutrients, the rate of mutation of their genomes accelerates. But are these mutations directed towards those genes that might prove effective in rectifying the nutritional deficiency concerned, or are they random? New studies on a commonly used system (mutants of Escherichia coli that cannot use lactose) point to the second possibility.

Date: 1997
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/42370 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:387:y:1997:i:6633:d:10.1038_42370

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/42370

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().