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Microbiology

the contested finding that useful mutations appear in nondividing bacteria under selection more often than chance predicts.

In microbiology, adaptive mutation refers to the contested finding that useful mutations appear in nondividing bacteria under selection more often than chance predicts. This meaning comes from Cairns (1988) in Nature.[1]

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chance4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs mutation4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs selection4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Cairns, J., Overbaugh, J., & Miller, S. (1988). The origin of mutants. Nature, 335(6186), 142-145. https://doi.org/10.1038/335142a0

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