THE PROPORTION OF MUTANTS IN BACTERIAL CULTURES
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- 20 September 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology
- Vol. 41 (1), 119-129
- https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.41.1.119
Abstract
The proportion of mutants in a growing culture of organisms will depend upon (a) the rate at which the wild cells produce them (with or without growth), (b) the back mutation rate, and (c) the growth rates of the wild and mutant cells. If the mutation rate without growth and the back mutation rate are neglected, the growth of a mutant is expressed byKeywords
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