A Mobile Element in <italic toggle="yes">mutS</italic> Drives Hypermutation in a Marine <italic toggle="yes">Vibrio</italic>
ABSTRACT Bacteria face a trade-off between genetic fidelity, which reduces deleterious mistakes in the genome, and genetic innovation, which allows organisms to adapt. Evidence suggests that many bacteria balance this trade-off by modulating their mutation rates, but few mechanisms have been describ...
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American Society for Microbiology
2017
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