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COLD SPRING HARBOR PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY
Volume 7, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a018077
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- European Research Council (ERC) FP7 CIG Grant [321780]
- BSF Grant [2013463]
- Yigal Allon Fellowship - Israeli Council for Higher Education
- Robert J. Shillman Career Advancement Chair
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Mutation is the engine of evolution in that it generates the genetic variation on which the evolutionary process depends. To understand the evolutionary process we must therefore characterize the rates and patterns of mutation. Starting with the seminal Luria and Delbruck fluctuation experiments in 1943, studies utilizing a variety of approaches have revealed much about mutation rates and patterns and about how these may vary between different bacterial strains and species along the chromosome and between different growth conditions. This work provides a critical overview of the results and conclusions drawn from these studies, of the debate surrounding some of these conclusions, and of the challenges faced when studying mutation and its role in bacterial evolution.
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