Adaptive mutation: implications for evol
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Patricia L. Foster
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Adaptive mutation is defined as a process that, during nonlethal selections, produces mutations that relieve the selective pressure whether or not other, nonselected mutations are also produced. Examples of adaptive mutation or related phenomena have been reported in bacteria and yeast but not yet o