Isolation and characterization of Escherichia coli mutants with altered rates of deletion formation.

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Published in Genetics on January 01, 1991

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S K Whoriskey1, M A Schofield, J H Miller

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1: Department of Biology, University of California, Los Angeles 90024.

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