Fluctuation analysis: can estimates be trusted?
The estimation of mutation rates and relative fitnesses in fluctuation analysis is based on the unrealistic hypothesis that the single-cell times to division are exponentially distributed. Using the classical Luria-Delbrück distribution outside its modelling hypotheses induces an important bias on t...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013
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